A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - FRANCISZEK JAGIEŁKO
Stanisław Matraś and Aleksander Bugajski managed an improbable escape from the Ravensbrück camp. They walked by night and spent their days hiding in the woods, haystacks, and abandoned buildings. After a month of wandering through Third Reich territory, they arrived in Kruszewo near Piła – exhausted, powerless, and terribly gaunt. There, they spent a couple of weeks on the farmstead of Franciszek Jagiełko and his wife. Franciszek used that time to contact the appropriate organisations that helped prepare false IDs for the fugitives and then transported them to a safe place. Both Matraś and Bugajski survived the war Franciszek Jagiełko and his family were displaced and settled by the North Sea. He returned to Poland in November of 1945.
