He was the son of the interwar Polish foreign minister Józef Beck.

[1] At the outbreak of World War II, his mother and he left for the United States via Romania, Italy, France and Portugal.

A graduate of an officer cadets' school in Scotland in 1945, he was a soldier in the 4th regiment of the anti-tank artillery of the Polish Armed Forces in the West.

He was a member of the executive board of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America between 1967 and 1972 and in the years 1988–2009.

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