Poland | Memory of Nations

Contemporary witnesses from Poland

Antoni Aleksandrowicz

Antoni Aleksandrowicz

* 1928

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, The Partisan, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Member of Polish Home Army (Armia Krakowa, AK) and 4 more categories

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration

Maria Anielski Kołpa

Maria Anielski - Kołpa

* 1930

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Konstanty Bałtrusiewicz

Konstanty Bałtrusiewicz

* 1924

Poland, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), People's Army of Poland soldier, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 1 more categories

Helena Bobková in 1966

Helena Bobková

* 1948

Poland, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Farmer

18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Teresa Boehm

Teresa Boehm

* 1934

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Tadeusz Brzeziński

Tadeusz Brzeziński

* 1929

Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Poland

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Tadeusz Bukowy

Tadeusz Bukowy

* 1929

Poland, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland

Zdzisław Bykowski in 1973

Zdzisław Antoni Bykowski

* 1947

Poland, Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, Výjimečný stav v Polsku, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

30.JPG (historic)

Maria Chęcińska

* 1940

Poland

Regina Chwirot

* 1933

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

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