A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ZOFIA JAŚKIEWICZ-GAŁECKA
After escaping from the Warsaw ghetto, Dr Ludmiła Zeldowicz and her friend, lawyer Stanisław Adler, sought help on the Aryan side. They turned to friendly activists from the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR), thanks to whom they managed to find temporary shelter. In their new location, however, they encountered people who threatened and blackmailed them. They had to flee. Dr Zeldowicz remembered her former patient, Mrs Zofia Gałecka-Jaśkiewicz, who lived just outside Warsaw, near Anin. Zofia didn’t know Mr Adler, but without a single word and regard for danger, she allowed both of them to live with her. They both lived happily until the liberation under Zofia’s tender care. After the war, Dr Ludmiła left permanently for the United States. Stanisław Adler remained in Poland, but an intensified wave of anti-semitism contributed to his suicide. He took his own life a few days after the Kielce pogrom.
