Z dziejów Polaków w sowieckim Lwowie – przypadek Marii Tereszczakówny

Abstract

From the Lives of Poles in Soviet Lvov: The Case of Maria Tereszczak The paper discusses repressions of the Soviet security apparatus against a Lvov social activist Maria Tereszczak beginning with her arrest by counterintelligence bureau SMERSH in 1945, through a court trial, deportation, time in a labor camp, and her return to Lvov. It also depicts a seemingly hopeless struggle of the Pole to regain her good name. After ten years her sentence was annulled and she was rehabilitated. This development was a rare event at the time of the Brezhnev rule in the USSR.

Keywords

• Maria Tereszczak (Tereszczakówna)
• Lviv
• USSR
• post-WWII period
• Poles in Lviv
• repressions against the Polish community in the USSSR