On February 28, an Oral History Seminar was held at IFiS PAN. Participants analyzed an interview with a man born in 1934, who spent his childhood, including the World War II period, in Białowieża. The interview was conducted by Ms. Katarzyna Winiarska, a cultural animator and educator associated with the Białowieża Forest, the creator of the Virtual Museum of Jewish History in Białowieża, and a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. The recording is part of a collection of interviews she gathered to document the history of Białowieża’s Jewish community.
The Oral History Seminars are co-organized by the Faculty of Culture and Arts at the University of Warsaw, the Qualitative Data Archive at IFiS PAN, and the Polish Oral History Association. The initiative is under the patronage of the “Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej” („Wrocław Yearbook of Oral History)”.