helping sick forced labour camp prisoners and their families—widows and orphans. Today she is engaged in the activities of the kitchen and in various campaigns which are organized from time to time.
Karmelicka Street.
During the bombardment, the informant, just like other women, was very active. The women participated in digging trenches and then carried water from the Vistula River. They covered the roof with soil so that it would not catch fire from the neighbouring tenement at Dzielna Street 17, which was on fire. They cooked hot meals for the poor.
Nowadays she works in the Women’s Section.438 She was a member of the House Committee but the men disregarded and hampered the women’s efforts. For instance, while on the committee Mrs M. suggested the collection of potato peels. The money obtained in this way was to be spent on bread for the children. But the campaign did not yield any results due to the men, who used any opportunity to suppress initiatives. Finally, when there was a parówka all residents were furious with the House Committee, and this resulted in dissolution of the committee. Encouraged by the resident’s pleas, she organized a new house committee consisting only of women (November 1941). They collected contributions in the lump amount of 50 zlotys, as the tenement was very poor. Nowadays they work hard: 2 children were placed in a boarding house and she managed to obtain food from the residents for the children in the basement flat. She claims that the Community burdens the House Committee to a great extent. When she comes across some serious problems she cannot properly do the duties she has been entrusted with.
Active in the Women’s Section. War-time activist, vigorous, energetic, satisfied with her job, limited intelligence.
