Notes From My Polish Childhood
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Notes From My Polish Childhood

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Notes From My Polish Childhood

About this book

This book is neither autobiography nor a family history. It is a short account of an unusual childhood and the experience of being born into a family living in a repressive political system.The family members faced many restrictions in their daily lives but, in other respects, managed to avoid the worst excesses of the Communist regime. The book recounts how, despite many limitations, the author and her brother were protected, encouraged to flourish and were not held back by a hostile political environment until their adult years.The book recalls the high and low points of life behind the Iron Curtain in one of the least politically conformist countries of the Soviet controlled Eastern Europe. The work records how dramatically life had changed in a previously cut-off society which, nevertheless, had always held high hopes for future progress.

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Information

Publisher
Brown Dog Books
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781839522574
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Foreword
  8. 1. Jelenia Góra – the town of my childhood
  9. 2. Kościuszko Square and the surrounding area
  10. 3. ‘The Bastion’, House No 2 in Kościuszko Square
  11. 4. Top floor flat No 7
  12. 5. Zofia – our nanny and housekeeper
  13. 6. Our kitchen and the ‘rescue mission’
  14. 7. The main bedroom and its treasures
  15. 8. Zofia’s sanctuary
  16. 9. Bathroom, water and perfumes
  17. 10. Sitting room through the decade
  18. 11. My piano and the music school
  19. 12. Paintings and Wlastimil Hofman
  20. 13. The portrait by Hofman
  21. 14. Food – Polish cuisine in my family
  22. 15. Festivities of Christmas
  23. 16. Easter celebrations
  24. 17. My parents: Irena and Andrzej – Irena’s story
  25. 18. My parents: Irena and Andrzej – Andrzej’s story
  26. 19. Uncle OleÅ› and aunt Halka
  27. 20. Grandmother Janina and her home in Starachowice
  28. 21. My father’s pharmacy ‘Under the Stag’
  29. 23. The story of the tooth
  30. 24. Childhood education – School No 7, spectacles and later mishaps
  31. 25. Family summer holidays on the Baltic coast
  32. 26. My brother Jurek and his story
  33. 27. Brief notes on the Polish political system
  34. 28. Solidarity – the independent Polish trade union
  35. 29. Bodo the dog
  36. 30. My secondary education – Stefan Żeromski Grammar School
  37. 31. Form IB and our teachers
  38. 32. Memorable school trips
  39. 33. Matura – exams for the certificate of completion of secondary education
  40. 34. Medical School in Wrocław
  41. 35. Internship in the hospital for miners
  42. 36. Back to my roots in Jelenia Góra