A brave woman, it’s hard to find one… Ms. Walentyna’s story.
Ms. Walentyna came to Maciejkowa Gora from the Narew Municipality from the small village of Gramotne, located in the edge of the Ladzka Forest included in the Białowieska Forest Promotional Complex, at the mouth of the Narewka River into the Narew River. Here she was born and lived her youth. For the first four years
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Mr. Andrzej, a miner from Podlasie
Mr. Andrzej is one of our younger patients. His story begins in Maciejkowa Gora, where he was born as one of seven siblings. There was no elementary school there, and so from an early age he commuted to Nowa Wola. After graduating from it, he moved to the other end of Poland, as far as
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Mrs. Maria has already lived 94 years in Luplanka Stara
Mrs. Maria was born in Łuplanka Stara before the war. Here she has lived all her life. She was still in first grade when her parents built a new house where they intended to live. But for financial reasons, the building was first used as a local school and 2 rooms were rented to a
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Professor Barbara Noworolska
Mrs. Barbara was born in Szopienice. At that time, it was a historic part of Katowice. Her father, Teodor, worked in the local mine as a foreman. In 1931 there was a dangerous collapse – during it he prayed to St. Barbara and led the miners out of the buried shaft. In gratitude for this
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Ms. Julia, resident of Siemianówka
Ms. Julia was born during the war, in Siemianowka, where she still lives today. It was here that she finished elementary school and then stayed with her parents to help them with their daily hard work on the land. It was also here, in Siemianowka, that she met her future husband. Fate brought him to
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Ms. Halinka
She was born in Mościska village, municipality of Michalowo and started elementary school here, but completed only 3 classes, located in private houses. Then it was necessary to commute to Michalowo and this is about 5 km. As she says, the commute varied: in the summer by bicycle and in the winter her father took
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Cecylia – always a cheerful and warm-hearted soul
Ms. Cecilia is one of our younger charges, but with her health severely impaired. She is known in Narew, where she has many acquaintances and friends, as „Celina of Ancuty village”. She has lived in Ancuty all her life. She was born here, finished 4th grades of Elementary School. She also took an exam for
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Mr. Mikolaj still remembers the times of World War II….
He was born in the village of Cisówka gm. of Michalowo but went to school in Szymki. When the war broke out he was 7 years old. He remembers how the Germans took 2 neighbors from the village, who never returned to their homes. His father also went to war at once, in 1939, leaving
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There is a Siemianowka reservoir, but our village is no longer there….
Mr. Mikołaj was born in the village of Luka, which existed until 1986, when the residents were resettled to Novaya Luka or apartments for displaced persons in the village of Bondary and other towns, due to the construction of the Siemianivka reservoir. As he says, for the bachelors, one rode a bicycle to Tarnopol and
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Our Mrs. Helenka
Ms. Helenka was born in the village of Topolany as the oldest of six siblings. Those were difficult times. Every pair of working hands counted. As a child, immediately after school she ran to help her parents on the farm. Despite her dreams of becoming a seamstress, she soon had to start earning money. After
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