Born In Prison

The communists inculcated a belief in her that her parents were criminals. - I considered them criminals until the end of the 1980’s. - recalls Magdalena Zarzycka-Redwan today, born in 1949 in an infamous communist prison at the Lublin castle. – Only after the collapse of communism I started looking for people who remembered my parents and began to uncover the history of my family - she adds.

Magdalena’s parents, who were Stefania and Wladyslaw Zarzyccy, lived in a Kolonia Luszczow village not far away from Lublin. They participated in an underground organization Freedom and Independence (pol. Wolnosc and Niezawislosc). WiN resisted communism in a desperate way. For such a long time, that the Polish secret police [pol. Urzad Bezpieczenstwa] caught and killed almost everybody. [...]

Today Magdalena believes that her parents are heroes. After the age of 40 she started making friends with them. She brings back their good name, she talks about them. The court granted her with her father’s acquittal. Last year she picked up a medal on behalf of her mother granted by the President [of Poland]. Read more here ...