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Life began for Sabina (Rózia, as she was called then) in 1925 as part of
a warm, close-knit, religious family in Jędrzejów, a Polish town about
80 kilometers from Kraków. After the establishment of the ghetto in the
spring of 1940, life for the Jews was extremely difficult and many had
to survive on smuggled food. On September 22 it was Sabina’s turn to
bring back food for her family, however, disaster struck and Sabina
received a message that the Germans had liquidated the ghetto and
everyone she had known and loved, except one uncle, had disappeared.
Upon hearing about the liquidation of the ghetto Rafał Kałowski (a
non-Jewish Pole from Greater Poland who was relocated to Jędrzejów and
re-housed in Sabina’s family home) made it his duty to help Sabina and
her uncle – he secured false identity papers, arranged for shelter with
colleagues and students, and provided clothing. But suspicion was always
high and Sabina was constantly on the run from such places as Chlewice,
Dąbrówka Morska, Słomka, and Łąkta Górna. Sabina’s story provides
stunning psychological insights about identity, memory, totalitarianism,
and the experience of immigration. She recreates a lost universe and
emphasizes the power of dreams and reminiscences to hurt and heal, and
to acquire the strength to survive.
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