Witnesses - Instytut Pileckiego
In 2018, we started recording the recollections and reminiscences of people who lived through the Second World War, and also of those who remember the postwar period. Our archive of oral history comprises a dozen or so thousand hours of video materials. Fragments of these interviews have been presented below, and you can also find them on the “Świadkowie Epoki” [Witnesses of the Age] YouTube channel.
Among the witnesses who talk about their experiences are soldiers from all fronts of the conflict, civilians, political prisoners, concentration camp inmates, and those who were incarcerated in forced labor camps and the Gulag. Witnesses of atrocities motivated by nationalism and of war crimes. The Righteous and the Saved. Polish citizens, Poles holding foreign citizenship, and the citizens of other countries. Accounts concerning the postwar period include, among others, provide information about the activities of the NKVD, the mass arrests conducted by the security services, and the period of martial law (1981-1983). The Solidarity movement is discussed by its members, while the workers’ strikes – by their immediate participants.
Contact: swiadkowieepoki@instytutpileckiego.pl
- Marian Breńda
Witnesses to the Age
Marian Breńda
#German crimes#ghetto#help during WWII#occupation#rescue of Jews by Poles #the Holocaust - Hanna Chmielecka
Witnesses to the Age
Hanna Chmielecka
#children#concentration camps#deportation_exile#German crimes#help during WWII#occupation#rescue of Jews by Poles #the Holocaust - Maria Dwurzyńska-Grzegrzółka
Witnesses to the Age
Maria Dwurzyńska-Grzegrzółka
#German crimes#help during WWII#occupation#rescue of Jews by Poles - Anna Grygiel-Huryn
Witnesses to the Age
Anna Grygiel-Huryn
#children#German crimes#ghetto#help during WWII#rescue of Jews by Poles - Kazimiera Jarosz
Witnesses to the Age
Kazimiera Jarosz
#German crimes#help during WWII#rescue of Jews by Poles #the Holocaust#the Righteous - Józef Jarosz
Witnesses to the Age
Józef Jarosz
#German crimes#help during WWII#rescue of Jews by Poles #the Righteous - Wojciech Kuropieska
Witnesses to the Age
Wojciech Kuropieska
#German crimes#help during WWII#occupation#rescue of Jews by Poles - Grażyna Teresa Olton
Witnesses to the Age
Grażyna Teresa Olton
#German crimes#help during WWII#rescue of Jews by Poles #the Holocaust#the Righteous - Zofia i Jerzy Przeździakowie
Witnesses to the Age
Zofia i Jerzy Przeździakowie
#German crimes#ghetto#help during WWII#occupation#rescue of Jews by Poles #the Holocaust#the Righteous#the underground