Poland | Memory of Nations

Contemporary witnesses from Poland

Walentyna Suryn

Walentyna Suryn

* 1915

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands)

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Wioleta Suzańska in the fourth year of primary school in Kudowa-Zdrój

Wioleta Suzańska

* 1968

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland

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

Ewa Szpiech

Ewa Szpiech

* 1932

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956

Bogusław Szumowski

Bogusław Szumowski

* 1936

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Political prisoner in WW2

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Ingetraut Tabaka

Ingetraut Tabaka

* 1929

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Adela Taruń

Adela Taruń

* 1922

Poland, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956

Gerard Tatarczyk

Gerard Tatarczyk

* 1929

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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Tomczyk Maria, 2025

Maria Tomczyk

* 1937

Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Krzysztof Turkowski

Krzysztof Turkowski

* 1954

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

26.8. 1980 Solidarity strike in Wroclaw

Władysław Uchnalewicz

Władysław Uchnalewicz

* 1925

Poland, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Member of Polish Home Army (Armia Krakowa, AK), Anti-communist protests in Czechoslovakia in Milevsko and Sedlčansko and 1 more categories

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