A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - JADWIGA TARKOWSKA
„I offer my daughter’s likeness to my beloved foster sister Genowefa Mrozek” – this was the description that the Jewish girl who was saved thanks to the efforts of Jadwiga Tarkowska’s family, Genowefa’s mother, put on the photograph of her 8-month-old daughter after the war. During the war the Tarkowski family lived in the village of Klementowice. Their small farm was situated far from the village centre, which ensured relative peace and quiet from German control. They were well known to the partisans, as well as to the Jews hiding from the genocide decreed by the Germans. Among them was Małka, a young Jewish girl. She became very close to Jadwiga’s daughter and after the war, when she settled in Łódź, she invited her benefactors to her wedding. Later, however, the contact ceased.
