Andrzej Kiełczewski

„I received such a task, surprisingly the telephone was not disconnected. Those days generally telephones were such an invention that I guess in the whole depot there were maybe two lines or so. Anyway, I had such a telephone line in an office room and I was trying to keep the contact by calling other Inter-Factory Strike Committees and got the information about what was going on there. This way with the surprisingly working connection, but I guess also overheard one, we were trying to find out what was going on, who… This way we were finding out that discussions started, proceeded, were proceeding. And also through the phone we found out that the discussions in Gdansk are coming to an end.”

„More and more people were coming to the depot. There was a Mass, a concert. We had an impression that at night, one night, someone was trying to get to the depot and thus some patrols were formed and we would walk down that yard, where it was quite dark. And we were looking whether someone was trying to break in. Everyone was scared, maybe not of a secret attack but of some provocation. Because we knew that there can be such ideas to drop something, do something, some event. We knew the pattern of the Security Service’s actions, so it was...”