In the House Committee
Mrs G. worked in the House Committee. Members: 4 women, 5 men. She had worked there until the Ladies’ Circle was organised a year ago. She was the chair of the Ladies’ Circle. Her other functions: child care, clothing clerk, seamstress. The Ladies’ Circle was usually active, but not always. The House Committee was active from the start. After the organisation of the House Committee the Ladies’ Circle became a little less active. They were tired, while there was new potential in the House Committee. All the ladies from the Ladies’ Circle became members of the House Committee. Other women joined the Committee as well.
The Activity of the Ladies’ Circle
The Ladies’ Circle took care of lunch rations and refurbished the locales when they were run down or when the Sanitary Commission deemed refurbishment necessary.
Mrs G. worked in the Care Section for Labour Camp Prisoners in her district. She conducted interviews and wrote reports. She had virtually the final say. They gave benefits to the families of forced labour camp prisoners. They also helped the prisoners who were returning home. They also gave posthumous [benefits] to the families of those who died in the camps (200, 300 zlotys).
Mrs G. is the district head for the Ogrodowa-Chłodna area.
During the Month of the Child her area was the same. She organized Month of the Child commissions for the House Committee and cooperated with those commissions. For a short while she was active in the Care Section for Refugees. She is now trying to activate the Ladies’ Circle, but it is difficult as the ladies are tired. [4] The ladies were brave and strong, more so than the men. Some of them went for bread at 3 a.m. during the fiercest bombing. An explosion took place next to Mrs G. while she was waiting in a queue, and a large section of the street surface right next to her was torn out. During the said destruction of the tenement the people wanted to escape, but Mrs G. calmed them down and stopped them, saying that when she was on the street
