The publication continues the book published in 2012, entitled “We Are All Manual Labourers... The Public Security Office in Bolesławiec (1945–1956).” The inspiration for both publications, devoted to the activities of the Bolesławiec Security Office, came from research conducted in 2008 near the former UB detention facility at 5 Grunwaldzka Street. Its purpose was to verify information about the burial sites of victims of the torture chamber in that area and to attempt to find and identify their remains. This was a turning point that prompted a public discussion about the activities of the UB in Bolesławiec.
The publication was prepared in cooperation with the Municipality of Bolesławiec, the Wrocław Branch of the Institute of National Remembrance and the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec.
Prof. Robert Klementowski, PhD, DSc, heads the Branch Office of Historical Research of the Institute of National Remembrance in Wrocław and is a lecturer at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Wrocław. He is the author of approximately one hundred publications on the anthropology of memory, literary history and contemporary history, including monographs devoted to district structures of the security apparatus in Lower Silesia (in Lwówek Śląski, Zgorzelec and Lubin), uranium mining (“In the Shadow of Sudeten Uranium: Uranium Mining in Poland, 1948–1973”) and the so-called Second Conspiracy (“Jelenia Góra Eaglets”).
