A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ZYGMUNT JUCHNIEWICZ
Zygmunt loved the forest since he was a child. Even in primary school, he knew his future lay in forestry. He devoted himself to this pursuit wholeheartedly and even as a teen worked in the forests belonging to the Czartoryskis’ estate. He graduated from the Lwów Academy of Forestry. From 1924, he administered the Sękocin forests near Warsaw, which during the war became an ideal hiding spot for partisans, Home Army soldiers, and Jews from the Warsaw ghetto. The thick, ancient forest allowed for creating numerous hiding spots, personally tended to and protected by Zygmunt and his workers. He also created a special alarm network of bicycle-riding boys that managed to warn those hiding in the forest. Zygmunt Juchniewicz remained a forest administrator until his dying day, spending every free moment among the trees. He died in 1958 in Magdalenka.
