A number of Poles fled to Poland during this time, among them Igor Newerly and Tadeusz Borowski.
In 2002, Imre Kertész, while receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, stated that all his works were written because of his own fascination with Borowski's prose.
Tadeusz Kościuszko | Tadeusz Kantor | Pan Tadeusz | Tadeusz Różewicz | Tadeusz Mazowiecki | Tadeusz Kotarbiński | Tadeusz Peiper | Tadeusz Fijewski | Tadeusz Rozewicz | Tadeusz Góra | Tadeusz Borowski | Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński | Tadeusz Kraus | Tadeusz Banachiewicz | Tadeusz Baird | Polish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division | John Borowski | Tadeusz Sulimirski | Tadeusz Sołtyk | Tadeusz Romer | Tadeusz Piotrowski | Tadeusz Pieronek | Tadeusz Nalepa | Tadeusz Mirosław Kondrusiewicz | Tadeusz Makowski | Tadeusz Kutrzeba | Tadeusz Kossak | Tadeusz Kosciuszko | Tadeusz Kantor, ''Kantor's chair'', concrete sculpture, height 14 m. Hucisko | Tadeusz Estreicher |
However, each of the four portraits is easily identifiable: Alpha is Jerzy Andrzejewski, Beta is Tadeusz Borowski, Gamma is Jerzy Putrament and Delta is Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński.