Alina Fiszgrund with her husband, Maksymilian Fiszgrund, and daughter, Wanda Golebiowska

Alina Fiszgrund with her husband, Maksymilian Fiszgrund, and daughter, Wanda Golebiowska

This is our family photo taken on vacation in Pobierowo, at the Baltic See, in 1958. My daughter, Wanda Golebiowska, was ten. One day I left her at the hotel and went out to buy something, and when I came back she wasn't there. The child vanished! I was so frightened! I started looking for her everywhere and in the end I found her weeping on the street: ?I?ve lost my parents?. She came out to look for me. There was a Jewish club on Slawkowska Street, and there I met Fiszgrund. In 1951, in the fall, I married him. In October. We lived on Lea Street. I lived there for 40 years and today my daughter lives there. I got a job at an institution called Zjednoczenie Kotlarskie, later renamed Centralne Biuro Urzadzen. I worked there for 22 years. First I worked as the director's secretary, then in the planning department, and after that in one of the technological departments. In the end I worked in the experimental laboratory, and that's the period I have the fondest memories of. Later I fell ill and was granted a disability pension until retirement. Then I started working for the TSKZ. Fiszgrund held a full-time position at the Jewish Committee, he was the head of the assistance department, I think. He also held a position at the TSKZ, the deputy head of some department. After the Jewish Committee was dissolved in 1953 or 1954, he was granted first a disability and then a retirement pension. He started doing translations. From German into Yiddish. He was also a correspondent for the Folksztyme, writing about the activity of Jewish organizations in Cracow. Later I also did it for some time. My husband was a very decent man. Calm, quiet. Very calm. He was unable to get mad, and that's a precious thing. I can't do that, I'm very emotional, I'm different. We never quarreled, even though there was a substantial age difference between us, thirty years. My husband died in 1978. He is buried in the Jewish cemetery at Miodowa.
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