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Contemporary witnesses from Poland

Zdeňka Řeháková, left. On the right, her friend Marie Kučerová

Zdeňka Řeháková

* 1950

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Portrait photo of Agnieszka Romaszewska. Photo by Gosia Kawka.

Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy

* 1962

Poland

Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Priest Tadeusz Rusnak, 2015

Tadeusz Rusnak

* 1953

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

Marian Sajnog in 2025

Marian Sajnog

* 1939

Poland, Environmentalist

Melchior Sikora today

Melchior Sikora

* 1937

Poland, National minorities

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Danuta Śmiałowska

Danuta Śmiałowska

* 1923

Poland

Eugeniusz Smolar as a student at the University of Warsaw

Eugeniusz Smolar

* 1945

Poland, Journalist

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Czesława Smołka

Czesława Smołka

* 1932

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland

2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Alexander Sola in the 1970s.

Aleksander Sola

* 1932

Poland, Holocaust

Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Helena Spandel - the photograph from the period of youth

Helena Spandel

* 1928

Poland

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

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