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Kacman Perła

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Perła Kacman was born In 1948 in Dzierżoniów, where her parents (Abram Kacman, her father, and Chana Hanna, her mother) arrived following their evacuation from the USSR (they settled down in Bielawa). Perła’s mother came from a wealthy, Chassidic family living in Zarudnia village near Chełm. Her father came from a poorer family. Before World War II, Perła’s parents were members of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP). Perła’s mother had served a long-time sentence in the Lublin Fortress for her involvement in the illegal communist movement. For the last years of the war they moved to Warsaw, where their son, Walisz, was born. In September 1939 Perła’s parents were living at near Chełm. Later they crossed the Bug River and fled to Ukraine where they were employed in a collective farm (kolkhoz). After beak-out of German-Soviet war in 1941 Perła’s father is recruited into the Labour Army (trudovaya armiya) and sent to Kuibyshev. Chana with her son, Walisz, are sent further to the Kazakhstan. At the beginning of 1944 Perla’s parents discovered their current locations via the Moscow Bureau of the Red Cross.They returned to Poland in 1945. In the Lower Silesia, Pela’s father was a member of trade unions and organised knitting cooperatives. In 1950, the Kacman Family moved to Warsaw where Perla’s father found a job in the Electrode Lamps’ Plant. In 1964, he retired. Perla Kacman attended Stefan Batory High School, and then began her studies at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw. She kept ties with the milieu of the so-called “paratroopers” and attended meetings and lectures organised by Adam Michnik. In 1968, she was an undergraduate student and participated in the 8 March rally (carrying one of the copies of the resolution, which was about to be read during the rally). Following the dissolution of her university course, she was expelled from the University. In May 1968, when there were rumours spread about the preventive arrests, she left for Mikołajki. Thanks to Prof. Pniewski’s intervention, she was reinstated as a student. Perła Kacman remained in Poland in spite of her parents’ suggestions on a possible immigration. “I was not particularly sensitive to anti-Semitism since I got used to it. I had encountered it since I was a child.” She dubs the students’ March ’68 “the first Solidarity” and describes it as an experience which strengthened her ties with Poland and which drew the attention of the part of Polish intelligentsia to the Polish-Jewish relations. “For me, March ‘68 as such was a confrontation between indecency and decency (…) In my opinion, it is a subsidiary issue of who became a victim of that indecency” – she underlines. Perla Kacman is a professor of physics and works in the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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