title: The Ulams’ Lwów
abstract: Lwow, Lvov, Lviv have been different versions of the name of Adam Ulam's hometown. With the Hitler-Stalin deal in 1939, eastern Poland, and with it the city, became part of the Soviets' loot, and after the horrifying interval of the German occupation it stayed on the map of the USSR in its Russian form, Lvov. At the Yalta conference, President Roosevelt pleaded with Stalin that Lwow be returned to liberated Poland, but Stalin would not allow it. To be sure, social distinctions in prewar Poland i