Jadwiga Strzałecka

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Jadwiga Strzałecka, from Mańkowska's coat of arms Zaręba (born September 17, 1903 in Rudki, died in 1947 in Paris) is a Polish pedagogue. Curriculum vitae

Daughter of Wielkopolska landowner Count Teodor Mańkowski and Countess Anna Kokoszka-Michałowska. In the 1920s she was a postulant and a novice of the Ursuline Assembly. In 1935 she married in Paris artist Janusz Shotecki, a member of a group of Parisian representatives of Capuchinism. After returning to Poland they lived with her parents in Rudki. Daughter Elżbieta Strzałecka was born in 1938. Jadwiga Strzałecka founded a pre-school for children in danger of tuberculosis in Zakopane in 1938. During World War II, she was managing a war orphanage, which had been under the guardian council since 1941, in Warsaw's Sadyb. It was housed in a single-storey building on 45 Morszyńska Street. Thanks to cooperation with the Jewish Aid Council (codename "Żegota"), the orphanage became a shelter for many Jewish children, who were almost half of the children. Jadwiga Strzałecka took children, including children from the Warsaw ghetto, regardless of their appearance and constant checks on the Germans. Adult Jews were also hiding in the hostel, among them Anna Braude-Hellerow, Stefan Samborski and underground activists.

After the fall of the Warsaw uprising, the workers and students of the house were expelled from Warsaw. On their way to the Dulag transit camp in Pruszków, they managed to disengage from the crowd of exiles and hide at the road. They got to Poronin. With the support of Cracow "Żegoty" the orphanage was active until the end of the war.

As one of the survivors, Janina Hescheles, says, "From the first moment I crossed the threshold of this house in Poronin and contacted his manager, Jadwiga Strzecka, I was given the status of a young girl, surrounded by kindness, love and concern. It should be stressed that this warm relationship was all the children in this house were treated. There were over fifty. I was placed in a room with only slightly younger than me. These were the last months of the war. In everyday life we ​​had nothing to do with her. [...] I often come back to the memories of staying in this Child's Home, as the period in which I was brought back to childhood, being able to cope with mental wounds and being given joy and enthusiasm for life. From time to time I am amazed by the courage and commitment of Jadwiga Shotecka, Ziutka Rysińska, Wanda Wójcikowa and all those Poles who risked their lives in those days. I do not know if we Jews, in the face of the tragedy of another nation, would be capable of the same sacrifice. "

After the war, she left for Paris, where in 1947 she died of laryngeal cancer.

With her husband Janusz, she received the title of Righteous Among the Nations on July 10, 1973 (posthumously). Bibliography

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