The history of Feldman’s escape from Cracovian Ghetto is really terrifying for us-living in a free Poland. It shows tragedies of people who were persecuted just because of their provenance and a degradation of those who wanted to survive.
Mrs. Róża with her two doughters Janka and Ewa was bricked up with supplies of food and water by her husband. Terrible things heppened in this hideout. After a month they were free and they had to escape. Mrs. Róża’s husband was removed to a concentration camp. Being on their own, they spent all the night of liquidation The Ghetto in a small toilet where Mrs. Róża pulled out all her gold teeth. The next mornnig she gave it all to the wermacht soldier and they managed to escape out of the Ghetto.
They went to the tenement house where the owners were Mrs. Róża’s parents. The old caretaker lived there with his family. Mrs. Roża’s parents had been helping the caretaker to bring up his children, they had given him money for children’s education. The man took care of tired women immediately. His son contacted with a link Krysta (she survived the war and got The Medal of Righteous). She managed to get documents on name Kwiatkowska for Mrs. Roża and her doughters which seemed as being made by church. They were very good.
Ewa stayed in Cracow (her feet were frost-bitten). Mrs. Róża and Janka were taken by Krysta to Warsaw. They didn’t have any Semitic facial features so there were no problem with taking them by train. In the meantime, Krysta contacted with Zofia Kossak, who had found a place for women in Jetkiewicz’s house.
“There brought them so skinny and terrified”- Mrs. Maria says, “Janeczka was nobbled at first but then she started to play with puppets and smile.”
The Jewishes were living in Jętkiewicz’s flat. Mrs. Róża Kwiatkowska didn’t go out of the their room but Janka was bringing up normaly. She was even going out on backyard and playing with neighbour's children. “The neighbours were said Janka is a child of our cuusin from Zamojszczyzna (it was a time of pacification of this region) and everyone believed that.” Every family from tenement house in Twarda street was involved in conspiracy so there was no danger from neighbours.
