Topics addressed:

Alexander Dudenko (6.05.1906/1912–1974) – father’s story; postmemory; father’s arrest (1939); NKVD POW camp in Ostashkov (USSR); interrogation; Soviet repression; famine; return to Poland; the realities of life in the so-called Polish People’s Republic; no talk about Sybir – silence; Radio Free Europe / RFE; parents’ upbringing; respect for bread; the trauma of Sybir; thirst for knowledge