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
- 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 - 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 - François Rosset
Witnesses to the Age
François Rosset
#Communist crimes#the Righteous - Eugeniusz Szylar
Witnesses to the Age
Eugeniusz Szylar
#German crimes#occupation#rescue of Jews by Poles #the Holocaust#the Righteous - Józef Walaszczyk cz. 2.
Witnesses to the Age
Józef Walaszczyk cz. 2.
#German crimes#the Righteous - Józef Walaszczyk cz. 3.
Witnesses to the Age
Józef Walaszczyk cz. 3.
#German crimes#Soviet crimes#the Righteous#the underground - Józef Walaszczyk cz.1.
Witnesses to the Age
Józef Walaszczyk cz.1.
#German crimes#help during WWII#occupation#rescue of Jews by Poles #the Holocaust#the Righteous