Captivity, Military Service and Survival: My parents' wartime story 1939-1945

Dr Zawadzki’s parents met in a Scottish hospital at the end of World War 2, after their epic wartime journeys, from Poland to Siberia, via Soviet labour camps, the Middle East, and finally Britain. This talk is on Dr Zawadzki’s reconstruction – through documents, photographs and official records, as well as their own accounts – of their experiences.



(It follows on from Dr Zawadzki’s 2015 talk for the Old Wolves on his mother’s wartime deportation and journey to the UK. Her story has been published: A Polish Woman’s Experience in World War II: Conflict, Deportation and Exile, by Irena Protassewicz, ed. H. Zawadzki et al, 2020. It is also available in Polish).



Dr Hubert Zawadzki (Wolfson 1968-73, 1973-76; MCR 1976-) is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He taught history at Abingdon School until 2006. He is the joint author of A Concise History of Poland (2019) and has appeared on the BBC television series Who do you think you are?



This talk is part of the series arranged for Old Wolves, but it is open to all.