A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - MARIANNA CISOWSKA
“I will be bringing you bread until the end of my days”; every time Marianna was visiting a market in Opoczno, a Jew she had rescued was addressing her in these words. Even before the war he had a bakery and was thriving. He and Marianna hadn’t known each other before, but turns of the war brought them together forever. Marianna almost lost her life because of hiding Jews. The baker wasn’t the only one she was hiding, nor was the only one who survived thanks to Marianna. One day, Germans carried out a search in Cisowska’s house, found a person in hiding, put Marianna against the wall of the house and wanted to execute her. The cries of her two-year-old child and the pleas of her brother saved Marianna from death. Germans didn’t find any other Jews, the baker and others in hiding survived. A neighbour, who was executed by Germans for having a gun, didn’t survive. They killed him in Marianna’s property, on a bench adjacent to her house.
