A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - HENRYK AND IRENA RYSZEWSKI WITH DAUGHTERS ZOFIA AND WANDA
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Before the war, in parliamentary and press circles, Henryk was a known anti-Semite. No one would have guessed that from 1942 until the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising and the burning down of his house, he hid thirteen Jews with him. Most of them fled the ghetto without any means of subsistence. – We’ll manage,” the host convinced the escapees. To feed them all, he and his daughter Wandzia earned extra money by singing with a mandolin in Warsaw courtyards.
