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Polish civilian member of Polish Resistance and Intelligence Department, Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Vienna, Austria, 1940-1943; imprisoned in Landsgericht Prison, Vienna, Austria, 1943-1945
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REEL 1 Background in Teschen, Austria Hungary and Ceseky Tesin, Czechoslovakia, 1917-1939: family; education; discrimination against Poles by Czechoslovakian authorities; evacuation from Ceseky Tesin to eastern Poland, 9/1939. Recollections of period as member of Polish Resistance and Intelligence Department, Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Vienna, Austria, 1940-1943: removal to Vienna as forced labourer, 1/1940; reasons for being sent back to Silesia; her escape back to Vienna during Gestapo round up, spring 1940; obtaining employment; story of Austrian soldier who had fought against Polish cavalry in 1939; attitudes of civilians in Vienna toward Nazi authorities.
REEL 2 Continues: joining Polish Resistance organisation in Vienna, 4/1940; decision not to try and flee to the west; method of intelligence gathering; quality of her official papers; types of intelligence gathered; disposal of incriminating papers in River Danube; Gestapo search of flat; importance of her elder brother Jan Mrozek in Intelligence Department, Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa). Aspects of arrest and imprisonment in Landsgericht Prison, Vienna, Austria, 1943-1945: arrest and imprisonment; liberation by Soviet Army troops, 1945; nature of three day licence given to Soviet Army in Vienna, 1945. Aspects of period as member of Polish Resistance and Intelligence Department, Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Vienna, Austria, 1940-1943: other agents who worked for Intelligence Department, Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa); opinion of efficiency of German security authorities in Vienna.
REEL 3 Continues: achievements of organisation; question of status of Silesians on official documents. Aspects of imprisonment in Landsgericht Prison, Vienna, Austria, 1943-1945: rations; Christmas Day ration; behaviour of prison guards. Aspects of period in Teschen, Czechoslovakia, 1945-1948: return to Teschen, 1945; police raid on home to confiscate her passport at time of Communist coup, 2/1948.