A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - HELENA HAJDUK
“Today, we take the potatoes from the field and drive them to the Jews from the Lipsk ghetto” – said Stanisław Gozdur to his 15-year-old daughter, Helena Hajduk. It was 1942, and the Jews from the surrounding villages had been herded into a single spot. The Lipsk ghetto had neither high walls nor a gate, but leaving it entailed a risk of death. Poles, on the other hand, were forbidden from entering it.
Stanisław Gozdur, however, was fearless. He knew German perfectly and didn’t fear the Germans, as he’d often been their translator. He always used his skills and contacts for good.
Just after potato-lifting, Stanisław Gozdur and his daughter, Helena, took a cartload of potatoes to the ghetto, giving the Jews living there a couple of hundred of kilos.
