An Interrupted Childhood- Polish WWII survivors in Minnesota Virtual Opening
Thu, Sep 22
|Zoom
A photographic tribute to the Polish WWII survivors who settled in Minnesota Virtual Opening and guided tour with historic highlights and meeting of the Team that worked on the project. Explore the meaning of resilience. Please register to receive the Zoom link.
Time & Location
Sep 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:10 PM CDT
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About the event
An Interrupted Childhood: Polish WWII survivors in Minnesota is a photographic tribute that launches at the Minnesota State Capitol on September 1, 2022. Meet: Adam, Anatol, Leonard, Magdalena, Maria, Walter, and Wiktor.
WWII shaped the course of Polish history in the 20th century and redefined its borders. It started in September 1939, when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland. The two invaders effectively dismembered the country. Poland suffered immense losses; nearly six million Polish citizens.
During this phase of the Kalejdoskop Polski MN project, we collected the oral histories and photographs of Polish Minnesotans who have been through the horrors of the war: a forced laborer in the Third Reich, deportees to Siberia, a Polish Army Cadet, a Volhynia Massacre survivor, and a Holocaust survivor. These stories represent different fates of Poles during WWII.
The Kalejdoskop project combines oral history interviews with documentary photography. Grzegorz Litynski www.litynski.com is…