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Contemporary witnesses from Poland

Ewa Cichy

Ewa Cichy

* 1907 †︎ 2014

Poland, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands)

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Zofia Ciesielska

Zofia Ciesielska

* 1931

Poland, Forced labour during the WW2, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands)

1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR

Agnieszka Critchlow at the age of eight

Agnieszka Critchlow

* 1976

Poland, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Eugeniusz Cydzik

Eugeniusz Cydzik

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Poland, The Partisan, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, 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 , 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration

Eugenia in her younger years

Eugenia Dvořáčková

* 1929

Poland, National minorities, Déclassé, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

witness in 1945

Zofia Faiglová

* 1923

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Artur Fedorowski

Artur Fedorowski

* 1965

Poland, Anti-communist protests in Czechoslovakia in Milevsko and Sedlčansko

26.8. 1980 Solidarity strike in Wroclaw

Władysław Frasyniuk

* 1954

Poland, Dissident

26.8. 1980 Solidarity strike in Wroclaw , Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Gaik Ryszard, Wroclaw, 2021

Ryszard Gaik

* 1936

Poland, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Victim of forced relocation, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands) and 1 more categories

1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands" , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Witness at the military service in 1962

Dr. Ing. Stanislav Gawlik

* 1941

Poland, Historian, Politician, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

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