Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hear the testimony of one of a handful of people left who experienced the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp through adult eyes.
Back in 2019, we got the chance to interview Anastasija Gulej. She was 95 at the time, living a happy life in one of Kyiv's suburbs. If you didn’t know her, you’d never tell be able to tell that she wakes up every day with the horrors of her past. Her past as an Auschwitz-Birkenau inmate.
Anastasija was already 18 years old when she was taken there, which makes her memories especially valuable. She remembers things perfectly clearly, she understood what was going around her, she knew what it was.
We strongly believe that keeping the memories of such events in mind is our duty, even more so now, when most of the people who could remember it are gone.
More about the episode at Culture.pl:
https://culture.pl/en/podcast/SFTEW-32-WITNESS
More episodes of SFTEW:
https://culture.pl/en/stories-from-the-eastern-west
Episode credits:
Written and produced by Wojciech Oleksiak & Żenia Klimakin
Edited by Wojciech Oleksiak & Adam Zulawski
Hosted by Nitzan Reisner & Adam Zulawski
Scoring & sound design by Wojciech Oleksiak
Stories from the Eastern West is a podcast from Culture.pl telling little-known histories from Central & Eastern Europe that changed our world. It was brought to you by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Hear the testimony of one of a handful of people left who experienced the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp through adult eyes.
Back in 2019, we got the chance to interview Anastasija Gulej. She was 95 at the time, living a happy life in one of Kyiv's suburbs. If you didn’t know her, you’d never tell be able to tell that she wakes up every day with the horrors of her past. Her past as an Auschwitz-Birkenau inmate.
Anastasija was already 18 years old when she was taken there, which makes her memories especially valuable. She remembers things perfectly clearly, she understood what was going around her, she knew what it was.
We strongly believe that keeping the memories of such events in mind is our duty, even more so now, when most of the people who could remember it are gone.
More about the episode at Culture.pl:
https://culture.pl/en/podcast/SFTEW-32-WITNESS
More episodes of SFTEW:
https://culture.pl/en/stories-from-the-eastern-west
Episode credits:
Written and produced by Wojciech Oleksiak & Żenia Klimakin
Edited by Wojciech Oleksiak & Adam Zulawski
Hosted by Nitzan Reisner & Adam Zulawski
Scoring & sound design by Wojciech Oleksiak
Stories from the Eastern West is a podcast from Culture.pl telling little-known histories from Central & Eastern Europe that changed our world. It was brought to you by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
