Dr Anna Hejczyk-Gołąb

Graduate of the Institute of History at the Pedagogical University in Krakow, historian. For many years, she has been involved in documenting the fate of Poles subjected to forced migration in order to save them from oblivion (projects and scientific missions in Poland, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda).

While working at CDZWiP UP, she also organises and participates in numerous educational and knowledge dissemination activities (e.g. prepares exhibitions, educational workshops, participates in conferences and scientific and educational projects).

Participant of the grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the NPRH project entitled. “Pokolenia odchodzą. Relacje źródłowe polskich Sybiraków z Wielkiej Brytanii” (2012-2017) and a grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the NPRH project entitled “Diaspora of Polish Sybiraks. “Diaspora of Polish Sybiraks in the world – a record of source accounts/Notes and home archives of Sybiraks in the country – archival team (2021-2025)”.

Her research interests include: history of Poles and Polish settlements in Africa in the years: 1942-1952 (author of the publication entitled. “Siberians under Kilimanjaro. Tengeru. Polish settlement in East Africa in the memories of its inhabitants’), Polish wartime and post-war emigration in the United Kingdom, as well as so-called ‘oral history’. Meanwhile, in July 2022, she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled. ‘On the edge of life. Medical care and health of the Polish civilian population in Iran in 1942-1945 – a historical study’.

Decorations and awards

– Bronze Medal for Long Service – 2022.

– Centenary Medal for services to Independence – 2020.

– Award from the Minister of Education and Science for significant achievements in scientific activities to the UP CDZWiP team – 2021.

– Silver Badge of Honour for Services to the Sybiraks’ Association – 2020.

– Honorary Badge of Siberian – 2015.

List of publications

– A. Hejczyk-Gołąb, “May God protect you and give you strength to survive. Epistolary sources from the Archive of the Centre for Documentation of Deportations, Expulsions and Resettlements of UP as material for the study of the fate of Polish Sybiraks’, ‘Res Gestae. Historical journal”, no. 16, 2023, pp. 92-109

– A. Hejczyk, ‘Restored childhood. The Polish settlement of Tengeru in Tanganyika”, “IPN Bulletin. A journal of Poland’s recent history”, no. 9 (202), September 2022, pp. 68-79

– A. Hejczyk, “The Polish Independence Centenary Ring for the General Władysław Anders Museum – The Road to Freedom”, “Commentarii Academici”, no. 15, 2020, p. 28

– A. Hejczyk, “Polish wartime emigration to Great Britain on the example of the fate of witnesses to history from Coventry” [in: ] “Historia – Pamięć – Tożsamość w edukacji humanistycznej. Man as a witness to history”, vol. 5, ed. B. Popiołek, A. Chłosta – Sikorska, A, Słaby, Kraków 2019, pp. 155 – 174

– A. Hejczyk, “Sybiracy in our memory”, Commentarii Academici, no. 8, 2019, p. 13

– A. Hejczyk, “To preserve for generations”, “Commentarii Academici”, no. 2, 2018, pp. 19 – 20

– “Generations Gone. Source accounts of Polish Sybiraks in Great Britain. Coventry”, ed. H. Chudzio, A. Hejczyk, A. Szopa, Kraków 2016 [source study – 457 pp.]

– H. Chudzio, A. Hejczyk, “Centre for Documentation of Deportations, Expulsions and Resettlements” [in:] “Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna, Akademia Pedagogiczna, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie 1996-2016”, collective work, ed. K. Dormus, R. Ślęczka and J. Wojniak, Kraków 2016, pp. 305-31

– H. Chudzio, A. Hejczyk, “For our freedom and yours… Polish deportees in the ranks of the 2nd Polish Corps”, Biztpol Affairs, vol. 3, no. 3, [Budapest] 2015, pp. 10 – 24

– ‘Generations Gone. Source accounts of Polish Sybiraks in Great Britain. Bradford”, ed. H. Chudzio, A. Hejczyk, A. Szopa, Kraków 2015 [source study – 377 pp].

– ‘Generations Gone. Source accounts of Polish Sybiraks in Great Britain. Nottingham”, ed. H. Chudzio, A. Hejczyk, M. Buś, Kraków 2014 [source study – 453 p.].

– A. Hejczyk, “Centre for Documentation of Deportations, Expulsions and Resettlements, the establishment of the institution and its collections”, “Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historica”, Kraków 2014, z. 15, pp. 210-218

– A. Hejczyk, ‘Siberians under Kilimanjaro. Tengeru. Polish settlement in East Africa in the memories of its inhabitants’, Krakow 2013 [publication – 184 pp.]

– A. Hejczyk, “Childhood images in the memories of Polish Sybiraks from Leicester (UK)”. [in: ] “Historia – Pamięć – Tożsamość w edukacji humanistycznej”, ed. B. Popiołek, A. Chłosta – Sikorska, U. Kicińska, Kraków 2013, pp. 177 – 192

– H. Chudzio, A. Hejczyk, ‘The Lost Homeland, Kresowianie in East and Southern Africa during and after World War II. Reactions to the Yalta decisions” [in: ] “Kresowianie na świecie”, ed. M. Kalczyńska, Opole 2013, pp. 55 – 69

– H. Chudzio, A. Hejczyk, “Collections of the Centre for Documentation of Deportations, Expulsions and Resettlements”, Archeion, Warsaw 2013, vol. CXIV, pp. 59 – 70

– A. Hejczyk, M. Solarz, “We remember. Polish cemeteries in East Africa. Tanzania – Uganda 2009. expedition of the Student Scientific Circle of Historians of the Pedagogical University in Kraków”. [in: ] “From the Frosts of Siberia under the Sun of Africa. On the anniversary of the arrival of Polish Sybiraks in Eastern and Southern Africa”, ed. by H. Chudzio, Kraków 2012, pp. 133 – 146

– A. Handerek, Scouts’ Diary, part 2, 12 December 1945 – 7 December 1946, ed. A. Hejczyk, Kraków 2012 [source elaboration, 150 p.].

– H. Chudzio, A. Hejczyk, “Under the Sign of the Cross and the Lily on the Black Continent. Polish Scouting in Africa in the 1940s”, [in: ] Ideały wychowawcze i myśl polityczna harcerstwa polskiego, ed. by G. Baziur, Oświęcim 2011, p. 77 – 98

– W. Zbroja, “Listy do narzeczonej”, ed. A. Hejczyk, Kraków 2011 [source study, 66 p.].

– A. Hejczyk, Mogiła Elizy [Eliza’s Mogiła], “Wehikuł czasu”, no. 11, January 2011, p. 8 – 9

– A. Hejczyk, Scientific expedition to Leicester, “Wehikuł czasu”, no. 11, January 2011, p. 10 – 12

– A. Hejczyk, “First interview in Australia”, “Wehikuł czasu”, no. 13, November 2011, p. 14 – 16