Sztuka i Naród


Sztuka i Naród was a Polish published covertly in Warsaw, occupied Poland during World War II. It was supported by the resistance group Konfederacja Narodu. It was published from April 1942 to Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. 16 issues were published. It was the only Polish underground publication, dedicated to cultural matters, that was regularly published for such a long period of time.
Editors-in-chief:
  1. Bronisław Onufry Kopczyński – arrested in January 1943, died in April that year
  2. Wacław Bojarski - wounded in May 1943, died in June that year
  3. Andrzej Trzebiński - Arrested and executed in October 1943
  4. Tadeusz Gajcy - till the last issue, died in the Warsaw Uprising
Most of activists of SiN were related to the underground Warsaw University. Notable writers publishing in SiN included: Bernard Wojciech Mencl, Zdzisław Leon Stroiński, Stanisław Marczak-Oborski, Jerzy Zagórski and Lesław Marian Bartelski.
The magazine supported the radical and national philosophies, and was critical of some pre-war trends; in particular, it criticized the Skamander group of Polish writers.