JEWISH WOMEN FROM DOBCZYCE
They ran homes, raised children, helped in the family business, supported each other and worked together in the community. As an example, we can look at an event set up by the SJON organisation in Dobczyce in 1932. The patronage of this event was held by women.
They were excellent housewives. They ran welcoming households.
“We had a very open house where non-Jewish families from our neighbourhood came to visit us and we had an extraordinary friendship with them.(…) My mother was a kind woman with a good heart and she cared for the hungry and the poor.”
(Zofia Pistol/Naomi Kluger)
“My mother was an excellent cook and a great baker, and on Saturday evenings my sister’s and brother’s friends would gather in our spacious kitchen to enjoy these delicacies.”
(Anna Thaler/Hana Bilu)
During the difficult times of the Nazi occupation, they organised help for the poorest. They looked after children, organised meals for them and an after-school club where the youngest, who had no access to school, could study. They were the ones who brought medicines from Kraków to the Dobczyce health station (as evidenced by their names on passes).
The stories of these ordinary and extraordinary women will be told by Elżbieta Polończyk-Moskal at the opening of the exhibition “CALL ME ISZA. ŻEŃSZCZYZNA” on 19 April at 6 p.m. at the Community Centre of Culture and Sport in Dobczyce). The moderator will be Agnieszka Wargowska-Dudek.
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