Among the many books he translated were the works of Ilya Ehrenburg, Ève Curie (the daughter of Madame Curie), and Franz Werfel.
Following the transfer of Breslau to Poland in 1945, the hotel hosted the World Congress of Intellectuals during the Exhibition of the Recovered Territories in 1948 with guests such as Pablo Picasso, Irène Joliot-Curie, Ilya Ehrenburg and Mikhail Sholokhov.
Ilya Repin | Ilya Kabakov | Ilya Prigogine | Ilya Kaminsky | Ilya Ehrenburg | Ilya Salkind | Ilya Maksimov | Ilya Ilyin | Ilya Glazunov | Ilya | Ehrenburg | Ilya Rabinovich | Ilya Musin | Ilya Kovalchuk | Ilya (comics) | Ilya Blyznyuk | ILYA | Ehrenburg, Lower Saxony |
Notable politicians, academics, and artists attended, including Pablo Picasso, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie, Bertolt Brecht, Paul Éluard, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Dominique Desanti, Ilya Ehrenburg, Martin Andersen-Nexo, Sir John Boyd-Orr, Olaf Stapledon, Alexander Fadeyev, Julien Benda, A. J. P. Taylor, William Gropper,