Yesterday was huge, both on the legs and on the emotions. We've decided to stay in today and recover — and to catch up a bit on our washing and the blog! Tomorrow's plan is the Warsaw Uprising Museum, the Fryderyk Chopin Museum and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Museum — that should be about enough!
Distance driven — today, nil; to date, 25,033 miles ( 40,387 km )
War is madness .. and often very cruel madness.
ReplyDeleteWonderful to see the flowering of the best side of humankind out of blood - drenched ruins.
Can appreciate the emotional cost of what you have seen .. especially on Hiroshima Day.
What was the story behind Krystina Kahelska? She looked to have character as well as beauty, Have browsed the three spots you will visit. Curie used to nwander about with radium in her pocket and surprise surprise, died of CA I gather. Will like to learn more about her.. The uprising museum was a brave and honest effort from a country that was horribly oppressed. personally I hope I am an angel with a seat on god's council when Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot the Korean and Japanese warriors and lots of others are judged by their deeds. My own ain't great, but I think I'll avoid hell-I've lived in it here often enough. Am watching ScuLthorpe's gallipoli sYMPHONY-IT'S VERY GOOD-NEVER THOUGHT i'D SAY THAT ABOUT sCULTHORPE. Must get back to writing. keep well and I endorse Russ's comment 100%. Love, Cathy
ReplyDeleteKrystina Kahelska, born into a family of intellectuals, studied geography, history and ethnography at Warsaw University from 1932, graduating in 1939. In the years 1936-1937 she posed for Louise Nitschowa, the sculptor of the Warsaw Mermaid monument, so it's her face you see on the statue. She used to sing regional songs on Polish Radio.
ReplyDeleteShe was a poet, and many of her songs were sung by the members of the Polish Resistance, and have been collected in "Songs of the Underground" and other anthologies.
From December 1939 she was part of the resistance movement as a courier into Nowogródczyzna and transporting weapons. Trained in health and in 1943-1944, she worked as a nurse in a local hospital in Wlodawa. As a nurse travelled to partisan groups and trained the girls for medical service.
In the Warsaw Uprising, on August 1, during an attack on the Press House building at ul. Marszalkowska 3/5 (the editorial office and printery of the "New Warsaw Courier"), while rescuing a wounded colleague she was shot three times in the chest and died as a result of wounds on the morning of August 2..