Waiting to be Heard is the voice of the persecuted, the brave, the
hopeful, the betrayed and the determined. It is a testament to the
strength of the human spirit and to a generation that did not see
itself as 'victims, ' but as 'survivors.' Studies of the War and
post-War years have traditionally focused on political and military
history. In recent years there has been a greater interest in the
social consequences of the War. Nevertheless, discussions relating
to the displacement of the Polish-born usually focus on the
Holocaust interpreted as a Jewish-only phenomenon. Yet, in the
years 1939-45, Poland lost 6,029,000, or 22%, of its total
population, including approximately 3 million of its Christian
residents. Many of those who survived the War, at its conclusion,
were scattered all over the world; by the end of 1945, 249,000
members of the Polish Armed Forces were under British command, with
41,400 dependants in the United Kingdom, Italy, East and South
Africa, New Zealand, India, Palestine, Mexico and Western Germany.
These refugees have long sought a voice for their experiences. The
website, www.PolishDiaspora.net, was created in 2006 by Dr.
Wojciechowska as a forum for their voices. The international deluge
of interest in the project resulted in Waiting to be Heard. While
some participants had talked and written about their experiences
before, the majority had not discussed their experiences with
anyone outside their immediate social circle. And the memories are
still painful, as exemplified by one participant who said, "God, I
askyou; allow me to forget those days and weeks when I lay on piles
of corpses in the hope of finding a tiny bit of warmth; allow me to
forget the licking of ice from the walls of the cattle wagons;
allow me to lose my memory of those years "
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