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Agent Zo
'Deeply researched and written with verve... thoughtful as well as action packed' The Times 'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading' Hallie Rubenhold This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo, told here for the very first time. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these ...
Survivors
Reveals the harrowing story of life in Warsaw under Nazi occupation and explores resistance to the regime by the Warsaw intelligentsia.
Elzbieta Zawacka: Polish soldier and courier during World War Two
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Elzbieta Zawacka joined the Women's Battalion of the Home Army and worked as an instructor and courier, taking money, messages and reports to members of the Polish resistance in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark. In November 1942 she was given a mission to take valuable intelligence via France and Spain to Britain. Succeeding in that task, she was parachuted back into Poland to help the resistance for the rest of the war. This book provides a detailed account of her wartime experiences.
If the Walls Could Speak
If the Walls Could Speak focuses on the lives of women in prison in postwar communist Poland and how they took on different roles and personalities to protect themselves and create a semblance of normality, despite abuses and prison confinement, and reveals how life in a Stalinist prison adds to our understanding of coercion and resistance under totalitarian regimes.
Platerówki? Boże broń!
– Żeby tylko wrócić. Czy to dzięki diabłu, czy Stalinowi, nieważne, żeby tylko wrócić, powtarzałam w myślach. I dodawałam: żeby się najeść, żeby mnie już pluskwy nie gryzły – wspomina Ada, żołnierka Samodzielnego Batalionu Kobiecego im. Emilii Plater, jedynej takiej formacji w historii polskiego wojska. Ada, jak tysiące innych dziewcząt wywiezionych podczas II wojny światowej na Syberię, żeby wrócić do domu, zgłosiła się do tworzonej od 1943 roku w ZSRR armii Berlinga. Kobiety w tym „ludowym” Wojsku Polskim nosiły moździerze, obsługiwały cekaemy, dowodziły męskimi oddziałami liniowymi, były spadochroniarkami, snajperkami i zwiadowczyniami. Po wojnie, zapomniane i uciszane, miały „kupić sobie fartuszek” i „rodzić wspaniałych synów”. W PRL-u ich przeżycia dopasowano do propagandowej wizji historii, a współcześnie zmanipulowano je w ramach obowiązującej polityki historycznej. – Platerówki pod każdym względem nie spełniają oczekiwań wobec tego, co powinna robić kobieta – mówi historyczka Dobrochna Kałwa. – Platerówki rozwalają system.
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Project Eagle
After the Battle of the Bulge—which had begun with a German attack that American intelligence failed to anticipate—the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, revamped its intelligence operations in Europe. Confronted with staff shortages and needing native language speakers, the OSS decided to enlist the cooperation of volunteers from occupied countries for intelligence-gathering operations. As part of Project Eagle, Polish soldiers were recruited and trained to go behind the lines of the Third Reich. Project Eagle tells this fascinating World War II story of intelligence and espionage that until now has been hidden away in the archives of the OSS. The OSS had worked w...
Records – Management – Archives
In the ten articles featured in this volume, the contributors initiate a discussion on how and to what extent political changes, armed conflicts, economic, social and technological transformations that have taken place in Central and Eastern Europe over the decades have influenced the process of creating historical sources, their preservation and accessibility. Each author has attempted to document significant transformations, both past and present, in order to reveal their impact on records, management and archives. The partitions of Poland, political events, World War II and the war in Ukraine, digitalisation, the legal environment of the European Union, the development of information technologies, and the activities of community archives are just a few examples of the factors that influence how historical sources are created, archived, preserved or destroyed.
