A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - GENOWEFA AND JAN SZMUC
The couple Genowefa and Jan Szmuc lived in the village of Wysoka near Łańcut. In July 1941, Jan went into the field to dig potatoes and found a hiding, frightened Jewish woman there. The Szmucs took care of the woman, hid her in a camouflaged dugout near the river during the summertime, and in the attic in the wintertime. The Jewish woman was fluent in German, so it was decided that the best option to save her would be to send her to Germany for work. Genowefa obtained her baptismal certificate and signed her up for work under her maiden name. The Jewish woman, as Genowefa Borcz, worked as a secretary at the factory in Stuttgart until the end of the war. There she met her future husband, Kazimierz Krok, and after the war they emigrated together to Canada, where the woman took the name Genowefa at baptism.
