From the “It Really Happened” Series

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 […]

One Folder, and Inside It – Testimonies of the War Years

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 […]

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