Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist scholar and activist. This book tells his life from
narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine where he became attached to the
Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950 he worked for the Foreign Ministry
and later for the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He served as Head of the Polish
delegation to the International Control Commission in Indochina in the late 1950s. In 1968 he
lost his job and his Polish citizenship in a nationalistic and antisemitic campaign. He was
able to move to Norway where he worked for twenty years at the Peace Research Institute Oslo
(PRIO) editing an international quarterly journal Bulletin of Peace Proposals and doing
research on the arms race. In retirement he continued his research and writing at the
Norwegian Human Rights Institute. The book vividly relates the drama of his life in Poland
Palestine Indochina and Norway. This is an open access book.
