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Contemporary witnesses from Poland

Marie Volovská, ca. end of the first half of the 1940s

Marie Volovská

* 1935

Poland, German minority in Poland after 1945, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Portrait of Alicja Wancerz-Gluza in 2022, photo by Gosia Kawka

Alicja Wancerz-Gluza

* 1965

Poland

Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Czesława Wałkiewicz

Czesława Wałkiewicz

* 1934

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

1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Witness Beata Zázrivcová during recording her life story

Beata Westrych Zázrivcová

* 1960

Poland, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Wanda (Berta) Wija

Wanda (Berta) Wija

* 1925

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army

Tadeusz Wilk, military service in the navy, 1966 - 1969

Tadeusz Wilk

* 1946

Poland, Relative of a political prisoner, People's Army of Poland soldier, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita

Irena Wiśniewska

Irena Wiśniewska

* 1934

Poland, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956

1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Witt Janusz, 2025

Janusz Witt

* 1934

Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Beata Iwona Wojnarowska

* 1963

Poland, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Výjimečný stav v Polsku, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Maria Wolska as a schoolgirl, when her name was Maria Hauschke

Maria Wolska

* 1957

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, German minority in Poland after 1945

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

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