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Testimony to the Invisible

Polish Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, has died at the age of 93. He witnessed the horrors of World War I in Lithuania, fought in the Resistance in World War II, then saw the Communist takeover of Poland, giving him a first-hand view of man’s inhumanity, yet still imbued his work with a love of the world’s beauty. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, and during the Solidarity union uprising of the 1980s, his poetry inspired his countrymen, and he was regarded as an icon of the movement with Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II.