Wywiad z Ewą Gąsowską
An interview with Ewa Gąsowska

Summary/Abstract: In the interview, Ewa Gąsowska described her ten-year-long struggle with the Polish legal system. Gąsowska’s objective has been to reinstate the good name of her grandfather, Jan Rybak, who was murdered in 1945. According to Gąsowska, the reason for her grandfather’s death was his political activity in PPR (Polish Labourers’ Party) and his post-war commitment to the reconstruction of People’s Poland (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa). Gąsowska claims that he was murdered by members of Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (National Armed Forces). Almost 60 years after the death of Jan Rybak, a book was published which presents his activity and death in a different light. The book had been written by one of those regarded by Rybak’s family as his murderers. This “courtroom drama” is situated in the context of the relations between the Rybak family and the local community (the place where Jan Rybak, and most likely also his murderers, were born), as well as the socio-political transformations in the contemporary Poland.

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