„Sęp”
“Vulture”

Summary/Abstract: The intention of the author of this article is not solely to present the possibilities of becoming more thoroughly acquainted with events from the past thanks to an analysis of family memory deposits (composed of verbal sources and documents in private collections), but also an attempt at “taming” certain facts. Piotr J. Fereński deliberates on the history of his grandfather, who during the 1930s worked in enforcement authorities but also took part in repressing the political opposition, at the time of the German occupation was simultaneously a member of the Blue Police force and a member of the Resistance, and after the Second World War worked in the Special Commission for Combating Misappropriation and Economic Abuse and then spent four years as an inmate of the prison in Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw. Through the prism of Falcon’s history his grandson demonstrates how difficult it can be to understand and assess stands, decisions, and behaviour of people forcefully flung by twentieth-century events and historical processes.

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