A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - JAN OCZYŃSKI WITH SON MIECZYSŁAW
When the day came when Maximilian and Leontyna Göttlinger with their son Adam and son-in-law Alfred Herzig could finally come out of hiding, the Jews – apart from joy – felt a paralysing fear. How could it be, that for years, persecuted for their nationality, being made to feel that they were someone, or rather something, devoid of dignity, who spread the deadly plague and all the evil in the world, now they could just walk around and not be threatened by anything? – That’s right,” argued Jan and Mieczysław Oczyński, who had selflessly, at the risk of their lives, given them shelter since 1943.
