Condemned to memory or oblivion. Characterizing the generation of Lublin’s male school alumni participating in the struggle for Poland’s independence Approaching history as a science or memory of the past offers various research opportunities: of cognitive, evaluative, and aesthetic nature. The war experiences from the period between 1914 and 1929 shaped a generation of students-soldiers from the Lublin high-schools, graduates of private schools that had been established after 1905 in the territories of the Kingdom of Poland as a result of a rebellion against the russification. Paper by Małgorzata Surmacz, Doomed to (Non-)Remembrance. Characteristics of the Generation of the Lublin Schools’ Male Students in the Fight for Poland’s Independence, is both an attempt to draw a collective portrait of that generation and a question regarding the reception of its’ remembrance. Present in the past memory, which is a form of a narrative, the members of the fight for independence and Poland’s borders in the times of the First World War and Polish-Soviet War appear as a tragic generation, periodically doomed to (non-)remembrance. These “pre-Columbians”, to misquote Roman Bratny’s popular term, fell into a social oblivion in the times of the Polish People’s Republic, just to return after the political transformation that took place after 1989. It is an open question whether – in the course of time and the dying out of subsequent generations that were depositaries of memories about them – they entered back the social framework of remembrance, assuming the role of a link between generations, or if they became a distant myth, a part of memory referred to as monumental, but in its devalued – and devoid of worth – form. Equally intriguing is the question to what extent the contact with this type of historical narrative can become a source of aesthetic experiences. While introducing these issues, the author presents biographies of the selected representatives of the analysed generation against the background of turbulent events of the past century, using both written sources and citing the accounts by the representatives of the successive generations of families of Lublin’s students-soldiers.