Jerzy Giedroyć died on September 14, 2000. He never doubted that Communism would fall and that Poland would regain its independence. Politics was most important to Giedroyc, but culture was an inseparable part of it. Called the Great Gardener of Polish Literature by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Giedroyc perfectly combined these two areas. From 1929 to 1935, he worked as a press and parliamentary desk officer at the Ministry of Agriculture, and from 1935 onwards - at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, as head of the Presidium Department.

After the outbreak of World War II, Jerzy Giedroyć, as an employee of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, was evacuated to Romania. From there, he went to Istanbul and then to Palestine, where he joined the Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade. He took part in the Libyan campaign and battles in Tobruk.

In 1943-1944, Giedroyć was head of the Periodicals and Military Publications Department of the Propaganda Office of General Władysław Anders' Second Polish Corps, a staff member at the Armored Weapons Training Center in Gallipoli, Italy, and then, in 1945, director of the European Department of the Ministry of Government Information in London.

In "Kultura", which he edited from 1947 onwards and which was the most important periodical of the Polish emigration, he smuggled in works unacceptable to the PRL censorship. Some of the most eminent writers wrote for him: Herling-Grudzinski, Gombrowicz, Miłosz, Różewicz, Hłasko, Czapski, Mrożek...