A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - SZCZEPAN MADEJ
– Ellie, don’t ask me what it’s like there… It’s hell in the ghetto,” Szczepan told his young wife with a broken voice. He was a fireman, extinguishing the burning ghetto, while at the same time… secretly transporting Jews out of there. He hid them behind firefighting equipment and dropped them off in Młociny. He never thought about the consequences. People simply had to be saved. How many of them he transported out, and how many survived – only God knows.
Elżbieta held in her heart many families, neighbours, friends with whom she had seen every day before the war. – We all lived in harmony, we all knew each other, we helped one another. And then someone tore us apart, stripped us of our humanity. Why? – Elżbieta lamented. She missed Dziunia, her friend from Pruszków. Dziunias parents were killed, and what happened to her – Elżbieta never found out.
