Poland | Memory of Nations

Contemporary witnesses from Poland

Bernard Materne

Bernard Materne

* 1933

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Antoni Matuszkiewicz in 2022

Antoni Matuszkiewicz

* 1945

Poland, Art and censorship, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Czech Minority in Klodzko County (Poland)

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita

Ján Medviď during recording in 2023

Ján Medviď

* 1946

Poland, Emigrant, National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé and 8 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 11 more anniversaries

Kornel Morawiecki

Kornel Morawiecki

* 1941 †︎ 2019

Poland, Dissident, Illegal border crossing, Journalist, Anti-communist rebel and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Zofia Nastaborska

Zofia Nastaborska

* 1922

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR

Halina Niedobová in 1955

Halina Niedobová

* 1934

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

2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Tadeusz Oratowski at the end of the 1960s as commander of a tank platoon of the 11th Mechanized Regiment of the 4th Division.

Colonel Tadeusz Oratowski

* 1943

Poland, Holocaust, People's Army of Poland soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Orzechowski Stanisław

Stanisław Orzechowski

* 1939

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

26.8. 1980 Solidarity strike in Wroclaw , 28.8. 1980 Holy Mass for strikers in the bus depot in Wrocław

Paczkowska (Siwak) Bożena

Bożena Paczkowska (Siwak)

* 1962

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Gypsies / Roma

Paczkowski Tadeusz

Tadeusz Paczkowski

* 1962

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Gypsies / Roma

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