THE RIGHTEOUS IN ŚRÓDMIEŚCIE DISTRICT
On May 21st, 2011 was held the walk “Following the Righteous in Śródmieście”, organized by the program “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History”.
The walk was conducted by Daria Boniecka-Stępień, collaborator of the project “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” and member of the Tour Guides Association “Golden Duck”. The walk lasted 1.5 hours and people from around 20 to 70 years old participated in it.
The participants visited the recently renovated Grzybowski Square, as well as the Twarda and Sienna Streets. The materials used during the walk – archival photos of the Righteous and rescued, excerpts from audio interviews and a map of the ghetto – aroused great interest of the participants. Some of them carefully listened to the stories of rescue, deeply touched.
During this year’s walk around the Śródmieście district, participants got to know the stories of the Żak and Jętkiewicz families, who had been hiding Jews during the Nazi occupation, near the Grzybowski Square and the Twarda and Sienna Streets. The Żaks gave shelter to 14 people and Henryk and Janina Jętkiewicz hid two escapees from the Kraków ghetto.
In the end of the walk promotional materials of the project “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” were distributed, among them an album devoted to the Righteous and DVD’s with films presenting the Polish Righteous.
The route was based on the accounts and documents collected during the research of the project “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
The interviews with the Righteous, rescuers and rescued were edited and published on the website www.sprawiedliwi.org.pl thanks to the financial support of the European Commission.
