Interview e.g. the radiators, the windows and the interior doors because in those times people used whatever was to hand. One of the quoin stones had been destroyed by a bomb which hadn't gone off. The building survived, since it's the only WuWA object with a steel construction apart from the Rading’s building, so the bomb only crushed some mortar... The construction
70 House no. 28, designed by Emil Lange, interior. Photography by Natalia and Ernest Dec
here is steel, screwed and hot-riveted. If you dig into the wall a bit, you can find elements that look like they have been
Bierut. There is a family story about that:
you know where.” We still have a copy of
taken from Grunwaldzki Bridge*. Grandpa
When my father was starting his second
this letter somewhere. We never received
came, patched it up and moved in with
or third year of studies, the student union
a reply. Grandma had already packed
his wife. Meanwhile, daddy was freed
demanded that he should be removed
their possessions and was about to leave
from a labour camp and travelled to
from the university for his improper class
it all behind, when two weeks later the
the French Zone of Occupation. Having
background, to put it bluntly, that he was
union head apologised sincerely to dad
contacted home, he decided it wouldn't
from the rotten bourgeois intelligentsia.
and the faculty council gave him a social
have been a good idea to go back home
It was the same university the grandpa
scholarship till the end of his studies. And
after being in the AK for such a long
worked at as a professor. Grandpa was
that's how it all ended.
time, so he drafted to the French Foreign
always a hot head in these situations,
AP: Professor Przewirski was a wonderful
Legion. He spent three years there and
so without much consideration and not
figure. He was born in Austria as Franz v.
even became a lieutenant. He dealt with
telling anyone about it, he sat at his desk
Putschegl. He came to Lvov to study at the
transport, not fighting. He came back
and wrote a letter to the deans. To cut
University of Technology and while there
and started to study at the Wrocław
a long story short, the letter said, “If my
he decided that Lvov and Polishness were
University of Technology where grandpa
professor's post is to be a hindrance to my
the best things that had ever happened to
had already worked as a lecturer. He was
son's graduation from higher school, then
him and he decided to stay. He wanted
handed his title as professor by Bolesław
Mr Bierut may shove this degree up his
it so much that he even accepted Polish
**
102 WuWA
* The Grunwaldzki Bridge in Wrocław is the only road-tram suspension bridge in Poland. It is located a few kilometres away from the exhibition area ** AK – Armia Krajowa, the Polish Home Army Guard operating during WWII