Metadata: Collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Central-Eastern Europe 1939-1944. Ujście Jezuickie
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- Archiwum, Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma, ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- (+48 22) 827 92 21
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- 312/273
- Title:
- Collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Central-Eastern Europe 1939-1944. Ujście Jezuickie
- Title (official language):
- Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej 1939-1944. Ujście Jezuickie.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Polanecka, Rozalia
- Date(s):
- 1942
- Date note:
- 1946
- Language:
- Polish
- Extent:
- 1 archival unit (0.01 linear metre)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The document is a letter written by Rozalia Polanecka on death row to Father Zygmunt Jakus on 18 September 1942. In the letter, Polanecka thanks the priest and all those who do good. The author is saying goodbye to the world. She believes she will be reborn as a ghost. She informs her reader that her hiding place was revealed by a certain Szywała, a deportee from Kolbuszowa. She asks the priest to hand over the letter to someone from the Polanecki family (if someone should survive) and to send the information to the address given in the USA (Jack Lippel). The priest noted on the letter that he received the letter on 6 May 1943. He wrote on the back of the (torn) envelope: "2 / 3.1945 I sent a registered letter to America". A post-war typed copy was attached to the letter.
A note written on 26 January 1946 by Dr Laura Eichhorn, an employee of the Provincial Jewish Historical Commission [WŻKH] in Kraków, describing the fate of Polanecka and her letter to Father Jakus, is attached.
- Archival history:
- On 18 September 1942, Rozalia Polanecka wrote a letter to Father Zygmunt Jakus while on death row in the prison in Wietrzychowice. Before she died, she gave it to a woman at the police station to throw it in the mailbox. The addressee did not receive the letter until 6 May 1943, and he kept it. After the war, Father Jakus gave it to a cousin of Rozalia's husband, Dawid Polanecki, who in 1946 handed it over to the Provincial Historical Commission in Kraków.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Rozalia Polanecka (née Berl) hid with her husband and three sons in Wola Przemykowska in a bunker with a former maid. The hideout was discovered by a man named Szywała, a deportee from Kolbuszowa. Polanecka was arrested and imprisoned in Wietrzychowice, where, while waiting for the death penalty, she wrote a letter. It was addressed to Father Zygmunt Jakus the parish priest in Gręboszów.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Polanecka, Rozalia
- Finding aids:
- A digital inventory (2009-2015) in Polish is available, including online.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Monika Taras; The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute; April 2020
