Zubrzycki was born in Kraków, Poland. He escaped from Nazi rule in World War II, and joined the
Free Polish forces in the United Kingdom. For his services there he was made a Member of the
Order of the British Empire (Military Division) by the UK Government. In 1956 he was appointed to a post at the
Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where he remained for the rest of his life. A biography of Jerzy Zubrzycki,
The Promise of Diversity, by John B H Williams and John Bond, was published by Grosvenor Books Australia in 2013.It was launched at an AIPA event by Malcolm Fraser, the former Australian PM. It was translated into Polish and published in Warsaw in 2016. ==Honours==