The author quotes her interview with Bogumiła Sawa: an expert on the Zamość region, historian, documentalist at the Zamość branch of the State Enterprise for the Preservation of Historical Monuments, patron of historical monuments (among other things, she financed from her own savings the project for the restoration of the attic in one of the Old Town’s houses), and at the same time one of the most colourful personalities of contemporary Zamość, who died in May 2020 (reprint, completed after Zamojski Kwartalnik Kulturalny). The conversation is mainly about reading and books, but Bogumiła Sawa, who came from Kamionka near Lubartów and later lived with her parents in Gdynia, also talks about coming to Zamość in the 1950s. The history and architecture of the town was her great passion. Bogumiła Sawa was a graduate of the Maria Konopnicka Secondary School in Zamość and later authored books about that school. At Warsaw University, she was a student of Prof. Stanisław Herbst, an outstanding expert on Warsaw and Zamość and author of books about the latter, as well as a doctoral student of Prof. Tadeusz Mencel from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin (doctoral thesis entitled “Transformations of Zamość in the Years 1772-1866,” published in 2019). In the interview, Sawa recalls her 12-year period of work in the Zamość branch of the Monument Conservation Centre and its staff, her first published article, dedicated to Walerian Łukasiński, a prisoner of the Zamość fortress, her other publications, and her long-term cooperation with Zamojski Kwartalnik Kulturalny (“Zamość Cultural Quarterly”).
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