A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - REV. GRZEGORZ PAWŁOWSKI (HERSZ GRINER)
Hersz was on his own. The Germans murdered his father, shot his mother as well as his two sisters, while his older brother, Chaim, joined the Russians. He managed to escape. It was the autumn of 1942. – Do you want to live? – an unknown boy asked him. – Sure,” said 11-year-old Hersz. – Then you must have a baptismal certificate – he advised him. And he handed it to him. Yet Hersh could not read, he did not know what was in the document. The Machaleks from Zamość helped him. – You are no longer Hersz, but Grzegorz Pawłowski. Anastazja and Józef Ptaszek taught him the prayer: „because it will be useful to you”. Years later, as a priest inflate, he would say that Poles helped him in all kinds of ways. – I had food to eat, somewhere to lay my head, they enrolled me in school. I was well off,” he recalled.
