„Duchowe przetrwanie czasów najcięższych” według Romana Ingardena i Karola Wojtyły
The subject of this article is the works of Roman Ingarden and Karol Wojtyła in the years of the Second World War and post-war occupied Poland. Ingarden – as a professor of philosophy – worked during the war on his work entitled Controversy over the Existence of t h e Wo r l d. Wojtyła started then his studies that were disrupted by the war. He was a poet, actor and alumnus of secret Seminary of Cracow Archdiocese since 1942. Ingarden and Wojtyła formed close relationship in the mid-1960s. What is similar, even during the war, in their thoughts is phenomenological philosophy and belief in the power of spirit of resis-tance not only in armed struggle, but also in that what is spiritual: science, culture and art.This article is structurally divided into three fundamental parts. The first part refers to Ingarden, the second part to Wojtyła and the third part to proper remembering and not forgetting historical experiences of struggle for independence of Poland.