A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ANNA WOŁCZUK
Life in the Eastern Borderlands during the World War II was fraught with a daily danger. Human life was of little value. On the one hand there was German terror, on the other – a rampant nationalism among Ukrainians. Anna Wołczuk, a resident of the village of Szypowce in Tarnów province, was hiding a Jewish family, a married couple with two children, in her home. It isn’t known whether helping Jews was a direct cause of Anna’s death or it was a Ukrainian drive to murder all Poles of the land. Anna wasn’t the only victim. On that day, Ukrainians killed about 30 people, including Anna’s mother, her two sisters and two children of one of them, an 8-month-old and a 2-year-old ones. On 2 February 1945, they drowned them all in the Seret river.
