A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - BRONISŁAWA KOWALCZYK
“Kobi, dear, we’ll be there soon. Try to look at what’s behind the window” – Bronia tried to make the boy interested in something new and thus dissuade him from asking questions about their destination. The Otwock-Warszawa train line was popular with passengers, but the hardest part was facing the stares of the German Green Policemen. Kobi had quintessentially Semitic features and was young enough to not understand the situation they found themselves in. Bronisława Kowalczyk had been taking care of him from his very first breath. She worked in the house of his parents, the Lises, where she tended to the children. Just before the Otwock ghetto was liquidated, Kobi’s father had asked Bronia for help hide his little son. She loved the boy with something akin to true motherly love, so she agreed immediately. The very same day, she took the boy to a Warsaw hideout by the Wojciechowski family.
