Adam Skinder
Born on 20 May 1921 in Grybow (Poland). Adam's parents were teachers. In 1939, he enlisted and fought in the First Polish Independent Highland Brigade. Taken prisoner and interned in Hungary after the September campaign, he joined the Polish Army being assembled by General Sikorski in France. Wounded, he reached the free zone after the armistice in June 1940 and received treatment at the military hospital in Lyon. There, he learned of the creation of the Polish high school in Villard, joined it and completed his secondary education there in two years. He enrolled as a student in Grenoble on a Polish Red Cross scholarship, and at the same time worked for the French Resistance. Arrested in Uriage by the SS intelligence services, he was detained in the Natzweiler (Alsace) and then Dachau concentration camps. Liberated on 5 May 1945, he returned to Villard to convalesce and became engaged to Irena Sobusik, a student at the high school, whom he later married. He resumed his studies in Grenoble. In 1946, he returned to Poland where he held successive positions in vocational education. He is the author of the book Mon Villard-de-Lans, several chapters of which were included in Notre École, a book published by the association. Adam died in 1999.
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