“Man has these images in his head (…) Thank the Most High for peace in our Homeland.”
What precious words spoken by an extraordinary woman who went through the hell of World War II, and which we, living in times of prosperity, cannot imagine. Mrs. Anna Duszkiewicz was a nurse and liaison officer of the Home Army, with whom we had the opportunity to meet and listen to memories “first hand”. We were able to participate in the meeting thanks to the initiative of prof. Justyna Korpak, cooperating with the Historical Anthropology Section of the Student Historians of the Jagiellonian University Scientific Club – the organizer of the event.
I’m sure that when Ania took the microphone and spoke the first words of her life story to it, she managed to steal the heart of every person sitting in the room. We were engrossed in the story of times that hardly anyone wants to remember. Nevertheless, Ms Duszkiewicz told her without omitting any details and patiently and very kindly (with a dose of humor) answered the questions asked. We learned what her life was like before and after the uprising and how the fight itself proceeded.
The event was attended by over forty students of our high school and teachers, i.e. prof. Piotr Rubacha and prof. Justyna Korpak. We strongly encourage you to take part in such meetings. They are extremely valuable because there are fewer and fewer people like Ms Anna Duszkiewicz, so the words they utter are of gold.
