A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ANNA AND WOJCIECH PIETRZYCKI
They were a young couple in the middle of the 1930s, when they settled in Warsaw, on Niska Street, together with their sons, Rysio and Zdzisio. They brought them up lovingly, in a sense of security, until the outbreak of the war changed everything, introducing unrelenting fear and hunger into their lives. In 1940, they were forced to leave their home and move to the Wola district. Wojciech did not break contact with his Niska Street neighbours, however. the little Zdzisio doesn’t know how one of their old neighbours found his way to their Wola cellar, but remembers perfectly how his parents brought down food for him every day and cared for his safety. On 5 August 1944, five days after the Warsaw Uprising began, the Germans entered Wola and started indiscriminately shooting its inhabitants. Wojciech was shot by his front door, and the Jew he’d been hiding died not long after that. Anna and the boys survived.
