A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ELŻBIETA ŚWIĄTEK
Elżbieta Świątek lived in Kraków with her husband and four sons from 1921 onwards. In the interwar period, their house was located at 6 Sienkiewicza Street. When Germans entered Kraków, the Świąteks were thrown out and moved to a flat at 1 Skałeczna Street. No regulations forbidding Poles from helping Jews could influence Elżbieta and her family’s close relations with their Jewish, Armenian, and Ukrainian friends from Kraków. On the contrary, caring for old friends became a priority for her. Elżbieta Świątek’s house between 1940 and 1945 served as a temporary shelter, for shorter or longer periods, to numerous people of Jewish extraction, including, among others, the Feldmans, the Rothenstreichs, Steffan Bronner, and Maria Spiegel.
