Given name: „Babcia” Family name: Żabicka

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  • Female
  • „Babcia”
  • Żabicka
  • 1960

  • 'Babcia' ('Grandma'), a Communist Party of Poland (KPP) member from Zaglebie before 1939; she lived in Marymont, she was ca. 70; she feed her companions and made them not break down, not feel lonley (especially at holidays); she took cafe of Zofia Marczak and her little daughter, Olga Kozlowska (she constantly worried that 'Ola' had nothing to smoke); she was able to get some cigarettes; after the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, when Germans were burning Marymont and they had to withdraw to Zoliborz, she took Zofia Marczak and her daughter with her; until the last moment of her life she was like a mother to Zofia Marczak; before her death she was decorated with The Order of Polonia Restituta; she died in 1960

  • "Memoirs of Zofia Marczak from 1939-1945, written on 26 February 1963, sent by the Department of Propaganda of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (KW PZPR) in Lodz to the Jewish Historical Institute. The author describes the deportation of Jews from Krosniewice, her stay in Piotrkow and subsequent activity in the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) in Warsaw. The footnotes feature brief profiles of some of the activists: Leokadia Staszewska from Piotrkow, Stanislaw Sowa from Warsaw, and 'Grandma' ('Babcia') Zabicka from Marymont, Warsaw. Written on 26 February 1963, Lodz, Zrodlowa St. No. 45 flat 6, tel. 301-00; original, typescript, 16 pages, 210 x 295 mm, in Polish.
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