When we both returned from emigration to Czechoslovakia, he really took it to his heart. In a way, we descended on him – a confirmed bachelor who had always shunned marriage. Yet he really cherished family ties and was very responsible. That is why he thought he should take care of us, although he may not have wholly realised that we were adults and could manage well on our own. Zygmunt was very concerned about our fate, was interested in what we were doing and how our life was going on.

I have already mentioned that Zygmunt was very much a family man. Let me also add that he dearly loved his brother, Jaś, who lived in Kraków after the war. He would visit Kraków often, usually for Christmas, also meeting my brother Piotr and his family. He was deeply affected by Jaś’s death, as he writes in his Diaries, and then took care of his wife, aunt Hanka. I remember that aunt Hanka was careful not to reveal her age and Zygmunt, who was very witty, always joked that we would get to know her age only after her death – “when she can be cut in half and we are able to count the rings”... It so happened that aunt Hanka survived Zygmunt – she died in 1996 at the age of ninety-two.

^{From the interview conducted by Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska 
(Mycielski. Szlachectwo zobowiązuje, Kraków 2018)}