A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ANTONINA POPOWSKA AND MIJAKOWSKI COPULE
Antonina Popowska was sister of Michalina Zofia Mijakowska. The decision to hide Ola Berłowicz and her mother was made by the three of them, together with Michalina’s husband, Mieczysław Mijakowski. Antonina lived in a house, on the ground floor of Przybyszewskiego Street in Warsaw. Mieczysław, together with his sons Adam and Janusz, dug a hole in the floor in which they prepared a hiding place that could be locked from inside. They were carrying the rubble out of the room for several days, usually after the sunset. Mother and daughter were hiding under the floor until fall of the Warsaw Uprising. Later, together with Antonina Popowska and the Mijakowski family, they settled in Stare Babice. They all happily lived to see the end of the war, and returned to Warsaw after the liberation, treading the ice-covered Vistula.
