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Pathway Women's Through Gdańsk Shipyard existing building MAP KEY former building 1 GATE NO. 2 Martwa Wisła (The Dead Vistula) WOMEN’S Roads and areas inaccessible without permission 2 REPRESENTATIVES' 7 8 PRESENT DAY PATHWAY CANTEEN 10 9 The herstories included in this publication refer to recollections dating back to those women's years of professional activity. THROUGH HOSPITAL DOK Dear visitor, you may wonder what remains after all these years. 3 ÓW O The words of Zofia Ferenc are the answer: "I really enjoyed it. OWC W ŻENI W A GDAŃSK SA Ó Basically when I look back at those times, I regret that The BHP HALL O 4 YP IOWC W Z ODLEWNIKÓW Shipyard fell apart, because I worked there 26 years and for me, my work there - this was my whole life. When they started to SHIPYARD NARZĘD 5 DIRECTOR'S VILLA take The Shipyard, my workplace, apart, it made me cry. When I started work there, seventeen thousand employees worked in 11 SHIPYARD MANAGEMENT The Shipyard. Each time, after some trouble, when one of us was 6 ODLEWNIKÓW fired, and then another, I felt almost like a part of my body was OFFICE cut off. It was as if you were losing finger after finger...". DYREKCYJNA HALL 42A Women from The Gdańsk Shipyard refer to The Shipyard not 7 only as to their workplace, often the only one in their entire 6 working lives. They remember it as the place where the most 8 LONG SLIPWAY GŁÓ important social and family relations were established and WN 13 GATE NO. 1 cultivated. For them it was space which gave them a sense of A ELEKTRYKÓW 5 purpose and meaning, that made them proud. 9 DEPARTMENTAL CHANGING I RYBAKI GÓRNE ROOMS PIEŁUSZK O PO RZEG KS. JE LISIA GROBLA These women's narratives are now 14 I reaching wider audiences. They are PIEŁUSZK 4 INCLINED SLIPWAY PO 10 EGO W a substantial part of Metropolitanka JERZ Ó KS. project and are told to a hundred or DŁUBOWC 11 SNACK BAR KA more people from Poland and abroad 12 who walk around the grounds of the former Shipyard every year. SCHOOL WORKSHOPS 12 JARACZA 3 Women workers and strikers are portrayed on the "Kobiety wolności” CRANES NITERÓW (Women of Freedom) mural, 13 2 created by RedSheels, as well as in EUROPEAN documentaries and projects created W SOLIDARITY OWCÓ ASSEMBLY HALL 3B T CENTRE A and conducted by Europejskie 14 TRANSPOR Z Centrum Solidarności (European MAL WNIC ARZY O A 1 Solidarity Centre). Their accounts HEALTHCARE CLINIC 15 NOWOMIEJSKA GAZ 15 along with archival materials will TNICZ SOLIDARITY GATE NO. 3 SQUARE 16 be stored in digital archives. OBO THE MONUMENT TO FALLEN R 16 DOK I It is possible to do an individual tour SHIPYARD WORKERS OF 1970 A W of The Shipyard using the dedicated AŁO app, audio guide and by listening to JANA Z KOLN W A The Shipyard's herstory on podcasts and audiobook – materials can be SKM GDAŃSK STOCZNIA ŁAGIE WNIKI accessed at: railway station www.stocznia-jest-kobieta.org Gdańsk Shipyard was a workplace which made its mark on the lives of many people, both symbolically and personally. The Shipyard declared bankruptcy in 1996. From 1947 until 1996, over one hundred thousand women and men spent most of their working lives there as gantry operators, welders, crane operators, fitters, technologists and insulators. You are holding the fourth edition of the map of the former Gdańsk Shipyard. Now, with this map, you can follow the steps of women who worked there and participated in famous Gdańsk strikes. We walk along the streets whose names refer to shipyard professions and the production process. The names of streets, for instance, are: Rurarzy (Pipelayers'), Kadłubowców (Hull Designers'), Wyposażeniow- ców (Equippers') or Malarzy (Painters') – there is no reference in those names to female workers. Now we are trying to pay tribute to them by Welder Anna Lubczyk APG 1291/7633 Engraver Urszula Noch APG 1291/7633 Shipyard's most productive female Shipbuilder's Day, from the left: Leokadia telling you about the everyday lives of women assembly hall workers, workers APG 51291/7633 Lejtkowska, Teresa Tabor, Mrs Henryka, engineers, nurses and administrative staff. In our narrative we will Maria Słońska APG 1291/7851 describe the hardships of daily work of women working in various professions; construction workers, cleaners, doctors and will tell the story of their struggle for better working conditions. The information we gathered came from interviews of former Gdańsk Shipyard workers and from archival research. Maryla Płońska, photo by: Zdzisław A. Fic / ECS collection Alina Pienkowska, photo by: Jacek Olga Krzyżanowska photo by: Leonard Awakumowski / ECS collection Szmaglik / ECS collection Women shipyard workers took part in the important political events that had impact on the issue of civil rights. We will tell you about the women participating in the Solidarity Strike of August 1980 - both those known by name and those who remain anonymous. We also mention earlier events, taking place in December of 1970.The women we talk about are, amongst others: Anna Walentynowicz, Alina Pienkowska, Maryla Płońska, Bernadeta Stankiewicz, Henryka Krzywonos, Joanna Duda-Gwiazda, Bożena Rybicka, Magdalena Modzelewska, and other opposition activists and artists present in The Shipyard during the strike. Design studio APG 1291/5599 Children's New Year's party in Shipyard APG 1291/5720 Together with our Heroines we would like to take you on a 'her'storic journey around the unique, post-industrial area of the former Gdańsk Shipyard. Authors: Anna Miler, Magdalena Stormowska Editors: Anna Mackiewicz, Anna Urbańczyk Translation: Katarzyna Ignerska Proofreading: Joseph P. Lapinski From the left: Magdalena Modzelewska, Anna Walentynowicz, photo by: Leonard Nursery, Director's Villa APG 1291/703 Graphic design: Julia Porańska Joanna Duda-Gwiazda, photo by: Jacek Szmaglik / ECS collection Awakumowski / ECS collection Coordinator: Anna Urbańczyk Contact us at: Shipbuilder's Day APG 1291/7851 From the left: Urszula Ściubeł, Mrs Helena, Instytut Kultury Miejskiej photo from Urszula Ściubeł's private ul. Długi Targ 39/40, 80-830 Gdańsk archive [email protected] www.metropolitanka.ikm.gda.pl Organizers: Phone number: + 48 58 760 72 16 Cover photo: Ewa Ossowska Keystone Press / Alamy Stock Photo Some of the names of authors of photographs used are unknown. ISBN 978-83-66003-58-3 Please let us know if you recognise a photograph or person(s) depicted. Lab technicians APG 1291/7642 Representatives' Canteen APG 1291/563 Shipyard's most productive female workers Woman christening the ship APG 1291/1478 Doctor Lidia Kierzkowska APG 1291/662 APG 1291/7633 and book fairs were held there and books could be borrowed structures of political and social organizations, in administra- champagne thrown at the ship’s bow was supposed to smash 1 GATE NO. 2 from a small library branch. The Canteen was the place where 5 DIRECTOR'S VILLA tion and the management functions. against it at the first attempt, otherwise it meant a bad omen 15 HEALTHCARE CENTRE men and women workers could integrate during the many for the ship's crew. The woman christening the ship uttered regularly scheduled special events. The Canteen was also Women employees were also members of Women's Council the following words: "Sail the seas and the oceans, honour the Each day workers had to pass through gates 1, 2 and 3 on their a venue for staff meetings with State representatives of the For many years The Director's Villa was used as a childcare facility branches operating in production halls and across departments, names of Polish shipbuilders. I name you...". In The Shipyard healthcare facilities women worked as doctors, way to and from work. The Shipyard was "a city within a city" - government and the Communist Party during their visits to (nursery and kindergarten). At the time, every employer who where they helped in childcare centre, organized transport to nurses, lab technicians and administrators. The facility was such expression was repeatedly used in recollections. The The Shipyard. One of such events, extremely costly (one hired more than one hundred women employees was obligated The Shipyard nursery for women with children, educated divided into various treatment sectors. There were, amongst Shipyard had a three-shift working system. Each person crossing million Polish zlotys) visit of Edward Gierek in 1979, was to provide childcare for the employees' children. Working teenagers, helped to improve living standards and housing SNACK BAR others, women's medical centres such as gynaecology and the gate had to show a valid pass and undergo a security check. criticised by Anna Walentynowicz in Robotnik (The Worker) mothers could leave their children with childcare workers conditions of large families, tried to establish a workers' hostel for 11 hygiene unit. Healthcare services for pregnant women were provided here. In the 1950s, the healthcare system dealt with magazine run by Warsaw opposition movement. employed at the facility. The advantage of such solution for the women staff, supported women pensioners and former Women constituted, depending on the period, from several women was the possibility to get back to the children quickly at such social diseases as tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, tracho- Walentynowicz was at the time a member of Wolne Związki Shipyard workers. Women activists pointed out that women On The Shipyard premises there were many kiosks, shops, per cent to more than ten per cent of all staff (there were, in feeding times. The Shipyard expansion plan of 1958 prescribed ma and some sexually transmitted diseases. Zawodowe Wybrzeża (WZZW) (The Coastal Free Trade holding the same posts as men did not earn the same wages, snack bars and service outlets. The goods sold were not easily the 1970s, nearly 20 thousand employees in total).
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