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Complaints, grievances, denunciations, requests for intervention. Today they are often associated with online comments, letters to authorities, or neighborly disputes. One might think this is a phenomenon of our times. Yet all it takes is a glance at the archives to see that people have been complaining… forever. In old official records, hundreds of similar […]

I spent a good two days going through the documents in this folder. More than once, tears welled up in my eyes. Because these documents are a vivid picture of World War II in the Biłgoraj county. Stories partly familiar to me, but also entirely new facts – written down in the heat of the […]