Irena Lasota speaks at Elliott School

The Jewish Progressive Political Association and the Polish Club hosted Polish Native Irena Lasota in the Elliott School last Thursday. Lasota gave an impassioned, first-person account of her participation in the 1968 anti-communism protests in Warsaw, Poland. She spent nearly three months in prison--listen to what she says about her time there.

"We thought they could do nothing to us," she said of her participation in the protest.

The crowd was enraptured by Lasota's description of the moment in time that changed her life. For anyone with Polish or Jewish heritage or with an interest in European History, the event was well-worth a trip to the Elliott School.

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