Born into a trading family on 21st October 1903 in Warsaw, Marek Wjasblum was a historian and a researcher of Polish reformation and Renaissance. A 1926 Jagiellonian University graduate at the Faculty of History. After obtaining his PhD title in 1928, Wjasblum moved back to Warsaw where he lived with everyday struggles, saying βI have always been a Jew for the Poles and a Pole for the Jewsβ. He was never a member of the Jewish Religious Community and his left-wing ideas made it impossible for him to hold a position at any Polish university. When WWII broke out, Marek Wjasblum lived in a territory seized by the Red Army. His family was murdered as a result of being in the German zone. Wanted by NKVD, Wjasblum,…