This is my husband on the top of Kasprowy Wierch in the Tatras. Maksymilian Fiszgrund is second from right, but I don't know the other people on this picture. Fiszgrund could be there on vacation, but it's also likely that it could be a TSKZ [Social and Cultural Society of Polish Jews]conference. The photo was taken in July 1956, it's written on the back of it.
There was a Jewish club on Slawkowska Street, and there I met my future husband. In 1951, in the fall, I married him. In October.
Fiszgrund held a full-time position at the Jewish Committee, he was the deputy president of the Jewish Committee. 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.
Maksymilian Fiszgrund in the Tatras
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