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"Kiedy stracilismy nasza wolnosc..."
Jadwiga Wasilewska-Antonczyk
Jadwiga Wasilewska-Antonczyk urodzila sie w Pradze w
Czechoslowacji. W niespelna rok po urodzeniu zamieszkala z siostra i z
bratem we Lwowie, gdzie wychowywala sie, chodzila do szkoly i pracowala do
chwili wybuchu II wojny swiatowej. Matki nie pamieta, bo zmarla dwa miesiace
po urodzeniu brata. Cala trjke dzieci wychowywala rodzina ze strony ojca,
ktry pracowal w woje-wdztwie stanislawowskim. Jako uczennica gimnazjalna
byla aktywna w zyciu mlodziezy i w szkolnych organizacjach. Po zdaniu
matury, do czasu wybuchu II wojny swiatowej pracowala w firmie wyrobw
wlkienniczych w Bielsku. Obecnie jako "senior citizen", rezydentka Stanw
Zjednoczonych, postanowila pozostawic slad, czastke tego co przeszla sama i
reszta Polakw pod panowaniem Stalina. Nie tylko na tak zwanej "wolnej
zsylce" ale w kazamatach, wiezieniach, obozach pracy, kopalniach zlota, na
Kolymie, gdzie od 1940 do 1941 roku bylo zeslanych przewaznie okolo 10
tysiecy polskich wiezniw politycznych. Tych, ktrzy po amnestii zostali
zwolnieni i "dowlekli sie" do Armii Polskiej, bylo zaledwie okolo 580 ludzi.
Przy panujacej temperaturze, dochodzacej do -70 stopni Celcjusza, wszyscy
mieli poodmrazane ciala.
Historia Jadwigi rozpoczyna sie w dniu wybuchu
wojny, 1 wrzesnia 1939 roku we Lwowie.
Czesc 1 | Czesc 2
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"When we lost our freedom"
Jadwiga Wasilewska-Antonczyk
Jadwiga Wasilewska Antonczyk was born in Prague,
Czechoslovakia. Less than a year after her birth her sister and brother and
little Jadwiga moved to Lvov where she grew up, attended school and worked
until the outbreak of World War Two. She does not recall her mother as she
had died two months after giving birth to Jadwiga's brother. All three
siblings were raised by family of their father who worked in the province of
Stanislaww. As a high school student Jadwiga actively participated in
youth's life and school organizations. After passing her "matura"
examination (high school finals), until the outbreak of World War Two, she
worked with the textile factory in Bielsk. Now, as a senior citizen and a US
resident, she decided to give evidence to the fate of herself and other
Poles under the Stalin rule. Not only on the so-called "voluntary exile" but
also in casemates, jails, labor camps, gold mines, in Kolyma camps where
about 10,000 Polish political prisoners were sent between 1940 and 1941.
Only about 580 of them survived until amnesty and, released, hardly managed
to reach the Polish Army. At the temperature reaching -70 centigrade they
all had frostbites all over their bodies.
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