Life Stories – Poland Second Chance, Grundtvig 2013-15 Areszt śledczy warszawa-białołęka Detention Center warsaw-Bialoleka
Tomasz Cyruk Katarzyna PetrygaAnna Ludwikowska Marta Graczyk, Mariusz Marcin Śmigasiewicz Secret
“How he did it, I did not see. I was eight at the time. We all were sitting at home. I mean, the adults were at the table, and then he did it in the kitchen. He stabbed him self in the heart. I can recollect it all the time. When only somebody asks me for a bad recollection this is it. It was a family party we were all at the table. An ordinary dinner. Granny was at the table, mother was to” It was known why? “He was drunk. He could not cope...was in prison. Had issues with alcohol...different issues. He had not family, he was lonely.” After a moment, with a wide smile, with no hesitation mare said. “A good time. Christmas time. Every year it was the most expected day in my life. Everything was so awesome in it. The expectancy. Today, now, we have everything, but those days? Well known. Nothing in the shops. During the festivities, you know, for a child, sweeties, packets, Santa, at home everything in abundance...as for Christmas. I can remember it, so special, and now the family reunion, dinner and the end. The drifting apart.” Later, in order to get closer with the personality of the convicted, we passed to the questions about his relationship with friends. We were keen toknow how he was as a kid, a teenager. Had he a group of peers. Pals from the back yard. Were they organizing together social life. “No rather no. I did not belong to any pack. I had very rigorous father, he did not let me play too much. He was not letting me to go out or something like that.” “For the first discotheque, it was not that he agreed. I jumped from the window, I crossed the veranda and ran past. I was about fourteen.”
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