Warsaw. The Kafta reservoir from 1944 was transferred to the Pawiak Prison Museum
Prisoners from Serbia were sewn for Irena Wituska and her little son Mariusz. The women were companions in Wituska’s cell, which was imprisoned in Pawiak for underground activities. Soon, the jacket will be on display in the exhibition of the Pawiak Prison Museum in Warsaw.
During the press conference, Beata Michalec Programa, deputy director of the Museum of Independence, that from November 1939 “Polish patriots were brought to the Pawiak – not only men, but also women”.
– There were also children in Pawiak and here children were born. Today we have a special day – Children’s Day. Was that day always the way it was or should it be during the Second World War? I always remind you that we are here at the museum, told stories that were before and before what should not work. Everyone else is ahead of us. We are here and there right now, and more will come for us. This clock should tell about traumatic stories, but important from the point of Polish history – she said.
In this straitjacket a prison
The curator of the Pawiak Prison Museum, Joanna Gierczyńska, informed that the scientific language was just a baby jacket sewn in the Pawiak prison in 1944. The donor was Mariusz Wituski, son of Irena Wituska, who was imprisoned in Pawiak on December 10, 1943 for her underground activity in the Department of the Home Army Headquarters.
– It is a jacket sewn in the cell by female fellow prisoners as a gift for mother and newborn baby. When Mr. Mariusz Wituski was to come into the world, the fellow prisoners acted. This jacket was sewn from batiste handkerchiefs – from what was at hand – and given to my mother. In this jacket, Mr. Mariusz Wituski left the Pawiak, he was made with his mother – he noted.
She added that it was “happy besides that”. – When the child was born, it saved my mother – either from being transported to the inheritance or from being executed. Mr. Mariusz Wituski was born on the last point, on July 31, 1944 and two hours in the world, i.e. he was made with his mother. 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 19 24 19 24 01 01 08 01 08 01 08 01 08 01 08 01 08 01 08 01 28 01 28 01 28 08 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 next due!
The youngest prisoners of Pawiak
The curator also reminded that “only children who were hostages” were sent to the place of appearance.
– The youngest prisoner of Pawiak, not counting the Canon, was Mr. Jan Heybowicz, who was arrested with his mother when he was less than two months old. He spent the first two years of his life here. Later, the family managed to buy him out – because it was a struggle to be able to buy him out of prison – and his mother was taken to Ravensbrück, but she survived the camp. However, his dad – whom, when he did not meet, because when he was two days old, his dad was arrested and also imprisoned in Pawiak, and later taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau – unfortunately, died – to.
Speaking in the conditions in which the Pawiak prisoners were born, “at the beginning of the existence of freedom, that is, at liberty”.
– A woman in a very advanced activity, just before giving birth, was transferred to a libertarian status. There you give birth and you return with the baby to prison. This situation lasted until the end of 1941. But a student of the Polish intelligentsia, the elite, and here a well-organized underground network that cooperated with the underground network were imprisoned in Pawiak. In the years 41, 1939-19, the conspiracy succeeded in several escapes, which were transferred to the libertarian state. From 1942, the Gestapo banned this practice and the births took place in the Pawiak prison, she summed up.
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