A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - KATARZYNA AND ANTONI MAJKUT
„Everybody get out”, thundered a Gestapo officer loudly. It was a cold November morning in 1943. Leaves in all shades of gold were paving way to the Majkut’s house. Now heavy, black jackboots marred an intricately woven autumn carpet of leaves. In panic that ensued in the house, Antoni and his older sons managed to escape. Katarzyna and her youngest son Ludwik remained in the farmyard. Germans found the hiding Jews quickly. They spared lives of Poles, but not the Jews ones. They took them directly to a Jewish cemetery and shot them there. In February 1944, barely four months after these tragic events, the Majkut took once again a Jewish couple under their roof. This time they weren’t so lucky. They were under a constant surveillance after Jews were detained in their home for the first time. Antoni was arrested, taken to a prison in Jarosław and then executed in Łańcut. The fate of Jews in hiding remains unknown.
