Poland

International

Contemporary witnesses from Poland

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

Elisabeth Panic

Elisabeth Panic

* 1932

Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Portrait photography of Waldemar Pernach. Photo by Gosia Kawka

Waldemar Pernach

* 1936

Poland

Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Jolanta Piątek in Vienna, 1980s

Jolanta Piątek

* 1959

Poland

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Zbigniew Podleśny in 1966 as twentyseven years old

Zbigniew Marian Podleśny

* 1939

National minorities, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Slovak-Polish relations in years 1918 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

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