Niepodległość w mikrohistoriach
Independence in Microhistory

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses microhistory related to the interwar experience of Hanna and Ludwik Hirszfeld, scientists and doctors. The purpose of the analysis is to show the differences between individual experience and the dominant historical perspective. The starting point is the assumption that in historical writing the relationship between experience and narrative is made by searching for possible understanding in the reservoir of all interpretations that often contradict one another. The theoretical inspiration of the article is the narrative concept of historical writing, proposed by Franklin R. Ankersmit. The author reinterprets the historiographic image of interwar Poland as a country of relative prosperity and democracy. She takes into account the four criteria of freedom indicated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and analyzes how much the dreams of a free country came true in the lives of Hanna and Ludwik Hirszfeld and how the ideas of freedom competed with democracy based on ethnic criteria that was created in the interwar period.

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