Postwar Dilemmas

This workshop deals with different topics connected with themes of conference. It shows, how radically borders of post-war Poland were changed and how it affected polish citizens. It shows how many polish citizens were expelled out of their homes during the war and met the end of the war on exile (and the reasons they stayed abroad or got back). Finally, it shows how personal fates were shaped by extremely complex political situation – two governments claiming their right to legal representation of the nation, Red Army occupation of polish territories, falsifying elections by communist and persecution of agrarian movement and all opposition. All those complex matters raise disagreement in classroom. We trying to “defuse” the controversial topic by placing participants in shoes of different historical characters to show their motivations and situation.