A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - JANINA NEJMAN
“When I was a child, I memorised Słonim as a city of many nationalities and cultures. I had a Tatar friend. Children from German-Jewish and Belarusian marriages were coming to me. We communicated in Polish and were united by our common wartime misery. We were helping each other. However, hateful attitudes of some adults were able to destroy these beautiful friendships” – this is what Irena Nejman-Miś wrote in her memoirs years later. In 1942, Fr. Sztark was murdered in Słonim for helping Jews, and a year later, as a result of a denunciation, Janina Nejman (Irena’s mother) and her older daughter Wanda were deported to Germany to work as labourers for delivering food to the ghetto. Luckily they survived.
