A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - IRENA AND MIECZYSLAW MUSSIL
Mieczyslaw hailed from Lviv and was a well-educated artist, a painter very sensitive to the plight of man. During the Second World War, he lived in the Warsaw Żoliborz district together with his fiancée (later wife), Irena, née Keller. They hid a total of fourteen Jews throughout the occupation, among them Renata Preczep and Boleslaw Matusowski with a daughter of five. In April of 1944, during a search of their apartment, the Germans arrested everyone and incarcerated them in the Pawiak prison. Mussils and Preczep were released a month later, but Matusowski and his little daughter were shot. Preczep survived until the liberation and left Poland in 1968.
