Underground Solidarity

Weighty, and more widely unknown chapter of local struggles for freedom, will be presented at a professional exhibition connected territorially and thematically with the existing in Stalowa Wola Museum of John Paul II at Fr. J. Popieluszko 4 Street, in the building constituting a place of memory of the events of those days. The realization of the exhibition is accompanied by a series of animation activities aimed at children and young people, such as: journalist-reporter workshops, a contest for the best reportage “Solidarity through the eyes of youth,” an interactive knowledge contest for junior high school students “Solidarity and youth,” meetings with residents as part of the “Let’s respect the memories” series, and meetings between oppositionists of the time and young people.
Thanks to the exhibition, people who do not remember those times will be able to learn about the fate of the employees of the Stalowa Wola Steelworks and other plants, the forms of involvement of engineers, workers, priests, teachers, youth and ordinary residents, as well as learn about the repressions that affected them and their families. The exhibition and its accompanying activities are intended to preserve the memory of the achievements of the Stalowa Wola “Solidarity” and to build links between history and the present, as well as to shape in young people a modern form of patriotism.
The project received funding from the Museum of Polish History under the “Patriotism of Tomorrow” program and from the Municipal Office in Stalowa Wola.