Grażyna Pytlak „Dla karteczki w kieszeni”. Relacja gorzowskiej dziennikarki prasy drugiego obiegu

• Authors: Krzysztof Wasilewski

Title variants

Grażyna Pytlak „Dla karteczki w kieszeni”. Relacja gorzowskiej dziennikarki prasy drugiego obiegu

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In her relation Grażyna Pytlak recounts how she got engaged in opposition activities. Already in 1976 she started cooperation with the Workers’ Defence Committee, the result of which was, among others, the distribution of illegal books and press in Gorzów. Moreover, Grażyna Pytlak took part in the meetings of Academic Chaplaincy organized by Rev. Witold Andrzejewski. Simultaneously with the creation of the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union ‘Solidarity’ she started working in union press, including most importantly ‘Solidarność Gorzowska’, where she fulfilled a function of editor-in-chief. On December 13, 1981 she was interned. After being released in March 1982, not paying attention to her poor health, she renewed contacts with underground structures of ‘Solidarity’. She continued to write for the underground press. Her texts were published, among others, in the periodical of the Regional Executive Commission entitled ‘Feniks’. However, she was not limiting herself to opposition circles in Gorzów. She was in contact with Jerzy Giedroyc’ Literary Institute ‘Kultura’ in Maisons-Laffitte. She was also meeting people connected to ‘Tygodnik Powszechny’. Her opposition activities came at a price of ruined health as well as numerous frisks. Although she often wondered if it is worth putting herself and her loved ones at risk, she never hesitated. She has become for many the symbol of the underground press in Gorzów as well as the whole Gorzów opposition.

Keywords

PL

opozycja antykomunistyczna; Solidarność; prasa podziemna; opozycja antykomunistyczna; Solidarność; prasa podziemna

EN

anti-communist opposition; Solidarity; underground press

• Publisher: Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość”
• Journal: Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 217-250

Dates

published

2012-10-30

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Wasilewski

• Wojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna im. Zbigniewa Herberta w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim, Polska

Identifiers

DOI

10.26774/wrhm.32