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A card from the calendar - Serafin Gilert
The circumstances of Gilert Serafin’s arrest and death are unclear. One thing is certain. Whenever he could, he was delivering flour for bread for Jews to the Ciechanów ghetto. Hunger, misery and suffering of the people locked behind the ghetto wall didn’t let Serafin quietly pass by.
18.03.2024A card from the calendar - Fedorcio Stanisława i ks. Andrzej Osikowicz
Betta Brawer, escaping from the Borysław ghetto, was holding in her arms her son Dani, born just two days earlier. It was August 1942, Betta was in the postpartum period, powerless, but her maternal instinct didn’t let her give up.
11.03.2024A card from the calendar - Maria i Stanisław Drożdżowscy
“We have seven children of our own, how are we going to manage to feed four more?”, Maria asked her husband Stanisław with concern. They had been moving constantly for some time. Luszowice, the village where they had their farm, was only a few kilometres away from Radogoszcz, which was in constant turmoil. It was during another attempt to return to their own land that the Drożdżowski family met a Jewish couple with two children on their way.
04.03.2024A card from the calendar - Piotr Domański i synowie, Franciszek i Antoni
“We are not going to leave Rzążew. Dad, we won’t leave you alone, it’s our joint decision” – this is how his two sons, Franciszek and Antoni, who were managing their father’s land, answered him. Piotr felt danger, he knew what secret three of them were hiding, so he was constantly asking his sons to leave the village, at least for a while.
26.02.2024A card from the calendar - Maria Dobrucka
Maria had the best role models in her family. Maria’s parents, Aniela and Andrzej Dobrudzki, were known for helping those in need. Their home in Czortków was often an asylum for Jews in hiding. In 1942, just after the liquidation of the ghetto in Czortków, their door were practically never closing. Among those who turned up at the Dobrudzki’s house were: lawyer Margules, Mrs Gelber with her daughter, accountant Szor, merchant Perelmuter and others.
19.02.2024A card from the calendar - Julia, Stanisław i Franciszek Czerwonkowie
It was a wedding that caught attention of most of the villagers. The wedding procession was largely followed by curious, whispering and gossiping people, as Mrs Julia’s nephew was marrying to a Jewish woman, assimilated but Jewish. It didn’t matter that she had converted to the Catholic faith, had been baptised, or that they loved each other very much.
12.02.2024A card from the calendar - Adam Czajka
Remains of the glass from window frames were intensely hitting the floor right next to the cradle of a 10-month-old Halinka. Her older sister, a three-year-old Basia, didn’t understand much of the situation yet, but she instinctively crouched down and bent her head as low as she could, additionally protecting it with her little childish hands. The fear she felt will be remembered for the rest of her life.
05.02.2024A 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.
29.01.2024A card from the calendar - Fr. Józef Kuczek
The canon of the Mała parish, pseudonym “Bies”, was the chaplain of the Home Army Dębica post. Having assumed the parish in 1942, he initiated a wide-ranging campaign to help every victim of the German terror in his district.
22.01.2024A card from the calendar - Marian Wojciech Bomba
Marian was an activist and patriot since his childhood. During the World War I, he was fighting since 1916 in the Legions. He developed kidney disease in the trenches and was therefore declared a disabled soldier. However, he didn’t lose his spirit or will to fight for freedom.
15.01.2024