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Władysław Bibrowski was born in December 1944 in Paris. His parents emigrated before the war because they sympathized with the PPS. After the war, they returned to Poland. His father, Mieczysław Bibrowski, was a journalist and worked for the Polish Press Agency. His mother, Izabella Zyltenberg. They lived in Mokotów. He had two sisters — an older one, born in 1943, and a younger one, born in 1950, just before returning to Poland. For several years, they lived in Yugoslavia (due to his father's work at the facility), where Władysław Bibrowski went to a Serbian school. In Warsaw, he studied at the TPD No. 3 primary school, then at the 42nd Maria Konopnicka School on Madalińskiego Street. He studied at the Warsaw University of Technology; in 1968 he graduated and in the autumn he began an internship at the Elta transformer manufacturing plant in Łódź. In 1969 he left Poland via Vienna for Rome, where he lived for several months. Then he traveled by ship from Naples to Melbourne. In Australia he completed teacher training, worked as a high school teacher of mathematics and physics. He visited Israel twice. He began preparing for a doctoral dissertation at the University of Townsville. In 1989 he came to Poland, got a job as a translator and stayed in Poland. INTERVIEWEE NAME: Władysław Bibrowski INTERVIEWED BY: Józef Markiewicz RECORDING: Józef Markiewicz COPYRIGHT TO THE RECORDING: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Discover the POLIN Museum's oral history collection: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... Subscribe to our channel: / @historiamowionapolin Watch the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews channels: POLIN (announcements and reports from events at the Museum): / mhzp2013 Virtual Shtetl (history and culture of Polish Jews): / virtualshtetl Polish Righteous (stories of help provided to Jews during the Holocaust): / polscysprawiedliwi Contact for the interview: [email protected] #PolinMuseum #SpokenHistory #marzec68