Halina Bortnowska

Halina Bortnowska (23 September 1931 – 19 June 2024) was a Polish social and ecumenical activist, and publicist.

[1] Halina Bortnowska-Dabrowska (born September 23, 1931 in Torun, died June 19, 2024[1]) - Polish philosopher, theologian, publicist.

Animator of social projects, participant in the ecumenical movement expressing the need to convene the next Council in the Catholic Church.

From 1961 to 1983, editor and secretary of the editorial board of the monthly Znak (among other things, journalist-reporter of the Third Session of the Second Vatican Council; 1964).

She participated in the Action of Signs of Repentance projects of cleaning up ruins in Poland (Auschwitz) and Germany (Dresden).

She was an animator of projects to commemorate the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto, Jedwabne and Srebrenica[4].

Halina Bortnowska's Thinker (Agora Publishing House, 2011, release September 23, 2011 Elaborations [ edit| edit code] The nameless speak of prayer (selection and arrangement; introduction by Marek Skwarnicki; Znak, 1973, 1982) The Sense of Sickness, the Sense of Death, the Sense of Life (compilation and editing; Znak, 1982; 1984, ISBN 83-7006-065-X; 1993, ISBN 83-7006-265-2) Poles-Germans '93.

by Halina Bortnowska-Dąbrowska and Kazimierz Dąbrowski; edited by Josef Thesang; FKA 1997, ISBN 83-86771-06-2) poland://germany-2011.

Materials from a conference organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation on April 13-15, 2000, in Warsaw (substantive editor; translated from german.

Representative Office in Poland 2001, ISBN 83-86771-12-7) Translations [ edit| edit code] Marie-Dominique Chenu, God's People in the World (with Zofia Włodkowa ; foreword by Jerzy Turowicz; Znak, 1968) Mark Schoof, Breakthrough in Catholic theology: origins, paths, prospects (Sign, 1972) Michel Philibert, Paul Ricoeur, or freedom to the measure of hope (sketch on creativity and selection of texts; with Ewa Bienkowska and Stanislaw Cichowicz; PAX 1976)