On the other hand they were perfectly aware, that going back could be dangerous, because Poland had turned into a communist monster. Stay or go, neither decision was the right one, and choosing a course was painful. Many of them returned to Poland and suffered years of misery with the status of “Western spies”. Other Polish engineers including Tadeusz Marek, opted to stay in England, knowing that probably this would be forever…
Marek found a way to live and work in Great Britain and eventually he achieved enormous success. Many of his colleagues went the same way, but being away from home they rarely enjoyed recognition.
Communist Poland put a ban on any information about Marek or other Polish engineer-immigrants. This ban was so effective that even today in Poland, the life and work of Tadeusz Marek remain almost unknown. Not to put too fine
a point on it, as a leading car engineer, he is famous everywhere except… Poland. The Foundation`s mission is to bring back to the collective memory all his achievements as well as his outstanding personality.