Poland

International

Contemporary witnesses from Poland

Władysław Karol

Władysław Karol

* 1926

Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), People's Army of Poland soldier, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poland

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland

Elżbieta Kasprzak (Szoma)

Elżbieta Kasprzak (Szoma)

* 1980

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Gypsies / Roma

Andrzej Kiełczewski

* 1959

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

26.8. 1980 Solidarity strike in Wroclaw

Michał Klemens

Michał Klemens

* 1926

Poland, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands)

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Józefa Klijewska

Józefa Klijewska

* 1930

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

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

Roman Koniecki in his youth

Roman Koniecki

* 1937

Poland, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1940 Katyn massacre, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Lucia Kowalska

Lucia Kowalska

* 1931

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Photo from the passport she used in 1988 and 1989 as a liaison between the Polish and Czech dissent

Krystyna Krauze

* 1967

Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Poland

Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, Výjimečný stav v Polsku, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Maria Krokowska

Maria Krokowska

* 1928

Anti-communist protests in Czechoslovakia in Milevsko and Sedlčansko, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Poland

1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Anna Kruszyńska

* 1935

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

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