Objects

The universal representation of a child in the arms of a man. The image was used as a montage in two accounts: an interview with Monika Goldwasser, part of a reconstruction of the moment just before the parents gave the child (Monika) to the convent orphanage, and an account of the rescue of Tola and Albert Szwejkowski and their son Kazimierz. In the latter story, the child was born while already in hiding with the Michalski family in Piastów; the birth was delivered by Helena Michalska and Mira, a Jewish woman who, together with her daughter Jolanta, was hiding with Helena's mother, Józefa Dąbrowska. After the War, Tola and Albert got divorced, Tola remarried Jakub Hampel, and the family left for France, where Kazimierz changed his name to Claude. He worked as a typesetter for the Zionist magazine "Unser Wort", later becoming a journalist. In 1998, the French Minister of Culture Catherine Trautmann awarded him for his services to the Yiddish language, and in 2000 he received the Cukierman Prize for his contribution to Yiddish culture.

The story of the Michalski family:

https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/stories-of-rescue/story-rescue-michalski-family