Warsaw Uprising. Ołdakowski about the action “Roots of memory”

This year, the Warsaw Uprising Museum inaugurated a project called “Roots of Memory”. It is a series of conversations with the descendants of the Warsaw insurgents. For some, they are stories of parents, for others, grandparents or great-grandparents.

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– The aim of this project is not only to show how the next generations remember the insurgents, but in fact to find out what these grandchildren, children of Warsaw insurgents make up spiritually, what values ​​they apply, taken from the Warsaw insurgents – said Jan Ołdakowski, director of the TVN24 Warsaw Uprising Museum.

As he assured, “this is a unique project, each of these talks is unique”. – We look at the insurgents from a different perspective through the eyes of their relatives, children and grandchildren. But we also look at the Warsaw insurgents as those who were able to pass on to the next generations various values ​​- stubbornness, will to act, thinking about others, friendship, many of these features are also useful in times of peace – noted Ołdakowski.

When asked how today’s youth experience visits to the Warsaw Uprising Museum, he admitted that “young people are certainly less interested in history than in the past.” We live in times of peace, in times of prosperity, in times when the future is easy to imagine, “he said.

– Of course, the pandemic shook us all, it showed that we should listen to the insurgents who always keep saying that you have to be prepared also for difficult times, that you have to be able to deal with adversities, and if people stay together, they will cooperate, then not there are terrible threats of any kind – said Ołdakowski.

He expressed his hope that young people visiting the Museum “will see that it is very important to think about community”.

The main celebrations related to the 77th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising began already on Thursday, with the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of the Memorial Chamber at the Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery. On Friday, the insurgents met with the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, and the President of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski. As every year, the highlight of the anniversary celebrations will be paying tribute to the insurgents at the Gloria Victis monument in Powązki during the “W” hour. Then the sound of sirens will sound all over the city.

– This is a special moment. It is very interesting that so many people are able to show with this minute of detention, with this reflection that they remember about the insurgents of Warsaw – said Ołdakowski.