Feminoteka Foundation [EN] in cooperation with the Warsaw Rising Museum [EN] have prepared the multimedia exhibition about day-to-day life of women during Warsaw Uprising (1944). Leaving aside the Uprising's controversies, authors focused on perspective of mothers, daughters, soldiers and heroines. The exhibition will be opened on October 22nd (details [PL]). Here is the trailer for the exhibition, underneath you can read subtitles.
- I was wearing casual clothes. None of us, women, had dressed up for Uprising.
- To tell the truth there was no hygiene. You could wash your hands under the tap and eat anything.
- I dressed up as if I was going to the ball. I was wearing white blouse, my favourite sweater, skirt, white socks and sandals.
- We didn't have a period. I think that negative emotions were the reason. None of my friends had period and it made it easier for us.
- In my haversack I had dressings, a few photographs, a pencil, piece of paper and underpants. It was a belt haversack, green and not big.
- Bombs are exploding, everone is crouching, you don't know if bomb is going to hit this house or the other. People are crying, shouting, they can't stand it.
- It's said I helped to deliver a child. It's said, because I was as if in a trance. I don't remember it well.
- Washing wasn't the most important thing, the more important was avoiding German bullets. When they shot it's better to be dirty than clean and dead.
- As long as I don't lose this toothbrush, I will not get killed.
- As for the clothes... You undressed from time to time, when you could wash yourself. You didn't undress for sleeping or anything else.
- You are free when you feel you are with others on the equal terms.
Anna Dryjanska
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