A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ADAM CZAJKA
Remains of the glass from window frames were intensely hitting the floor right next to the cradle of a 10-month-old Halinka. Her older sister, a three-year-old Basia, didn’t understand much of the situation yet, but she instinctively crouched down and bent her head as low as she could, additionally protecting it with her little childish hands. The fear she felt will be remembered for the rest of her life. That day, 2 April 1944, the Palm Sunday, was the last time she saw her parents. Maria and Zygmunt Kmiecik were led away and arrested by Gestapo. There was Maria’s family house right next door to the Kmiecik’s one, where her mother and two brothers, Adam and Staszek, both minors, lived. Adam was dragged out of the house by Gestapo a moment after the Kmiecik had been arrested, Staszek managed to escape. All according to the law, as Germans were only obeying orders, and as denunciation said, all three were helping Jews and additionally supporting the partisan movement. The sentence handed down by a summary court was enforced almost immediately. All three were sentenced and then transported to a forest in Warszyce and shot there.
