Jacek Andrzejewski
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Interlocutor biogram
Jacek Andrzejewski was born on January 14, 1947 on Narbutta Street in Warsaw, he had two brothers. His mother Sonia Landau came from Łódź. During the war, she was a prisoner of the Auschwitz camp and the Warsaw ghetto; after the war she was a writer, she wrote the book "I Survived Auschwitz" under the pseudonym Krystyna Żywulska. Apart from his mother, Jacek Andrzejewski was raised by his stepfather, Leon Andrzejewski (Leon Ajzen before the war).
He studied at a secondary school in Warsaw and at the Antoni Kenar School in Zakopane. After 1968, he moved to Sweden, and then to Germany. He graduated in graphic design there, worked in advertising and as a stonemason.
After 30 years of emigration, he returned to Poland, where he spent 20 years. He currently lives in Germany.
Recording circumstances description
The conversation was recorded at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
Recording summary
1. Information about the interviewee's mother; 00:00:36
2. Information about the interviewee's stepfather; 00:04:04
3. The interviewee's education at a high school in Warsaw and at the Kenara school in Zakopane; 00:04:44
4. The wave of anti-Semitism and the decision to leave Poland; 00:06:04
5. Trip to Sweden and studying in Germany; 00:08:37
6. Stonemasonry work; unrealized Warsaw sidewalk project; 00:10:06
7. The history of the mosaic in front of the American Embassy in Warsaw; 00:17:10
8. Arrivals in Poland after emigration; 00:19:31
9. Motivation for returning to Germany after a period of stay in Poland; the creativity of the interviewee; 00:21:21
10. Circumstances of emigration; discovery of Jewish origins; decision to study at Kenar's school; 00:26:26
11. Reports on the Six-Day War and the events of 1968; 00:31:31
12. Decision to emigrate; 00:37:16
13. The interviewee's mother left for Germany and her attitude towards Germans; 00:38:56
14. The wartime fate of the interviewee's mother; reflection on the situation of Jews at different moments in history; 00:42:01
15. The literary work of the interviewee's mother; mother's escape from Auschwitz; 00:46:47
16. Failure to talk to my mother about her war experiences; 00:48:22
17. Relationship of the interviewee's parents; the fate of the interviewee's father; 00:51:09
18. The interviewee's father's reaction to the events of March 1968; 00:55:35
19. The story of the interviewee's biological father; 00:56:22
20. Persecution of the interviewee's mother after the war due to writing a book about Nazi crimes; 00:57:32
21. The story of the interviewee's biological father; 01:05:23
22. Contacts with peers of Jewish origin; contacts with other March emigrants and their assistance in obtaining a visa to Sweden; 01:06:50
23. Problems with adapting to life in Sweden; 01:09:37
24. The importance of the interviewee's work in his life; 01:13:06
