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to mark the anniversary of martial law.

repeatedly carried out leaflet campaigns to inform the inhabitants of West Berlin – including the Poles – about martial law and the suppression of the democratic opposition.

Graphic artist. He worked with Nina Karsov’s emigrant publishing house "Kontra" (London).

A calendar dedicated to Poland in the 1980s. Publisher: Dirk Nishen. Dirk was an active supporter of the Solidarność working group in its infancy. He spent some of the earnings from the sale of calend...

Interview with the Free Berlin TV station. From left: Wojtek Drozdek, Joachim Trenkner.

House at Checkpoint Charlie; border crossing to East Berlin in Friedrichstraße.

House at Checkpoint Charlie; border crossing to East Berlin in Friedrichstraße.

1989

1983

Bookstore and more ... The first Polish bookshop in West Germany after the war (1978–1990). It was also a trading hub for smuggled books – in both directions. The sale of independent underground press...

Surgeon, photographer, traveller, sailor, author. Between 1982 and 1983, on his own initiative, he organised and sent 17 transports to Poland containing medicines and medical equipment worth DM 1.5 mi...

Trainer. He worked in West-Berlin with the Solidarność working group and the Workers’ Defence Committee (Komitet Obrony Solidarności – KOS). Friends with Giorgio Caroti, the owner of the legendary jaz...

Mathematician. Civil rights activist in the GDR. From the end of the 1970s, he maintained contact with the Polish Catholic community and with people involved in the Workers’ Defence Committee (Komitet...

Russian and English scientist. Publisher. Lecturer at the Free University of West Berlin. Founder of the Solidarity Defence Committee / Solidarność Society. Active supporter of "Fighting Solidarność" ...

Journalist. Together with the television crew from SFB, he accompanied the “Aid for Poland" in the fervid months of 1981–1983.

Waltraut Kerber-Ganse – Social worker. Lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin. Together with Wanja Ronge, her friend at the time, she organised and sent more than 20 transports to Poland conta...

Artist. Pedagogue. She organised the shipment of printed materials, foodstuffs and medicines to Poland. Awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Theatre academic. Pedagogue. Research assistant at the University of  Łódź until 1981. Co-founder (with Krzysztof Kasprzyk) of the first pro-Solidarność organisation in the FRG – of the Solidarność wo...

View from West Berlin.

Good Morning ...