A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ROZALIA AND PETER KMITA
When war broke out, Rozalia and Piotr were both over 60. They already brought their children up and grandchildren started appearing. They were a numerous, tightly-knit family, living in Grzegorzewice Małe near Kraków. What mattered to them was people – no matter whether close or distant, Polish or Jewish, big or small: a human being was a human being. They were community activists, always eager to help, always close to others. When their older daughter moved back to her family home just after her marriage in 1943, she didn’t know that for over a year Rozalia and Piotr had been using one of the rooms to hide a Jewish family, an older couple with a daughter and her two children. “Aren’t you afraid?” – Józefa asked her parents, having discovered the truth. “No, little one. How could we not help a family of five?” – answered Rozalia. From then on, the whole family helped Rozalia and Piotr hide the Jews, thanks to which they survived the war and could go to Katowice after the liberation.
