A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - TADEUSZ FRYDRYCHOWICZ
Doctor, community worker, Home Army soldier, patriot, husband and father. He never remained oblivious to the plight of those hurt, sick, or abandoned. The Hippocratic oath was sacrosanct to him, and serving his fellow man was the ultimate prize. He began his wartime captivity by being put in the officers’ camp in Prenzlau. He used the desperate fear of epidemics that the Germans exhibited to free many non-commissioned officers of the 60th Infantry Regiment from the camp, falsely diagnosing them with a contagious disease. After leaving the camp in 1942, he lived with his family in Legionowo, at 4 Głowackiego Street. Jewish children that had escaped from the Warsaw ghetto hid in the tombs of the local cemetery. Tadeusz Frydrychowicz tended to their festering wounds and frostbitten limbs each day, while also providing them with food, warm clothes, and blankets. He cared for the Jewish children until 1944, when Russians entered Legionowo and deported him to Siberia. He returned to Poland in 1948.
