The interview was recorded by the PILECKI INSTITUTE as part of the WITNESSES TO THE AGE project.

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Our today’s interviewee:
Krzesimir Dębski (born in 1953 in Wałbrzych), a prominent Polish composer, musician and conductor. He talks about the Kisielin Massacre (1943) in which Ukrainian nationalists murdered his grandparents, while his parents miraculously survived the Ukrainian Insurgent Army’s attack on the church in Kisielin [now Kysylyn, Ukraine]. His father was throwing away the grenades that the Ukrainians had tossed in through the windows, but in one instance he was too late – the explosion caused him to lose his leg. “My father couldn’t dance with my mum,” he recalls. After the war, the Dębski family settled in the Recovered Territories.

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