was also a professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1956, 18 years after their last meeting, his wife, Olimpia, was allowed to leave Poland and joined him in London. In the 1970s, he also became an active member of various organizations documenting and fighting against human rights abuses in Soviet bloc countries. He never returned to Poland and spent his last years in an Antokol hotel in Chislehurst, Kent, near London, that was run by General Tadeusz Pełczyński and his wife. He died there on 22 May 1997 and was buried in Halifax, next to his wife. They had four children. Witold Swianiewicz was the editor of the first edition of his father's W cieniu katynia. Maria Nagięć née Swianiewicz is a professor at the University of Warmia and Mazury, in Olsztyn. Witold also translated W cieniu katynia into English and published it under the title In the Shadow of Katyn: Stalin's Terror in 2002. Bibliography Benon Gaziński, ed., Stanisław Swianiewicz (1899-1997): ekonomista, sowietolog, historyk. Olsztyn: Instytut Nauk Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, 2010. 179 pp. Includes chapters written by his four children and family photographs; available Saint Mary's University Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. File-folder Stanislaw Swianiewicz. University Archive, Saint Mary's University Patrick Power Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. References Further reading Vladimir Abarinov, The Murderers of Katyn: a Russian Journalist Investigates the 1940 Massacre of 15,000 Polish Officers in Soviet Captivity. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1993, 396 pp. 1899 births 1997 deaths Writers from Daugavpils Military personnel from Daugavpils People from Dvinsky Uyezd People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent People who emigrated to escape Bolshevism Polish economists Polish male non-fiction writers 20th-century Polish historians Vilnius University alumni Polish Military Organisation members Polish people of the Polish–Soviet War Polish military personnel of World War II Polish prisoners of war Polish deportees to Soviet Union World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union Katyn massacre Foreign Gulag detainees Polish people detained by the NKVD People associated with the magazine "Kultura"