Obchody Święta Niepodległości i rocznicy wybuchu powstania wielkopolskiego w środowisku byłych powstańców w Wielkiej Brytanii 1940–1989
Independence Day and the Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Greater Poland Uprising Celebrations in the Community of Former Insurgents in Great Britain 1940–1989
Author(s): Bogusław PolakSubject(s): History, Cultural history, Oral history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: celebrations of national anniversaries; Polish emigration in Great Britain; Greater Poland Uprising; 15th Poznań Uhlans Regiment; Gen. Władysław Anders;
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the activities of former Greater Poland insurgents who, after the end of the war in 1945, found themselves in Great Britain. They arrived there as a result of the evacuation of the Polish Army after the fall of France, as members of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, or came from German prisoner-of-war camps from which they were released in 1944–1945. This community was characterised by great political and social activity, and engaged in commemoration of national anniversaries. Particular emphasis was placed on cultivating the Greater Poland independence actions of the nineteenth century and on demonstrating the origins, course and significance of the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919.
Journal: Dzieje Najnowsze
- Issue Year: 51/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 119-134
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Polish