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The article presents the circumstances and trajectory of the action of removal of religious symbols from state schools in 1958, initiated by Polish communists, as well as the reaction of the society in Opole Silesia to these events. The aforementioned action was a prelude to the program of secularization of the society. The analysis of surviving documents has demonstrated that the reaction of the society to the campaign was moderately peaceful. Protests in defense of the crosses were organized in areas inhabited by influx population from central Poland and the Eastern Borderlands.
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Władysław Zaremba was one of the leaders of the Polish Peasants’ Party in country and abroad, a member of the Polish government-in-exile during WW2, and a deputy to State National Council. However, he is almost completely forgotten nowadays. Historians were not aware of the fact that, while he was an expatriate in USA in 1965–1966, Władysław Zaremba wrote down his memoirs. The typescript was commandeered from Zaremba by the SB (the secret police) when he came back to the country in 1967 and was never returned to him. Establishing the Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej) gave many researchers an access to the former SB files, among which were Władysław Zaremba’s accounts. The aim of the author of the article is to introduce the reader to information regarding Zaremba’s political and social activity. The author also gives a brief characteristics of the memoirs, by specifying when and how they came into being, and discusses their content through the style of the testimony. An analysis of the typescript brings a conclusion, that it is the key to the history of the Galician countryside, peasants’ movement and Poland’s political history, but even more so – to understanding Władysław Zaremba – a peasant, social activist and politician – himself.
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