Photograph of four people in medical gowns, including Maria née Baruchow

The post-war photograph of Maria née Baruch, standing in the middle. During the war, she concealed her identity under the name Majewska, which she kept. The photograph came from the period when she worked for the Polish Red Cross in Łowicz; she moved to Łowicz during the war (at the beginning of the war, she stayed in Warsaw with her sister-in-law Bolesława Barlińska). She was a dietician and also the head of the PCK house. From the account of Agnieszka Wróblewska, who donated the photographs to the collection: She was sick and lame, she walked all her life with a cane. She once told me that she was running away from some round-up, she started limping more [...], and a German pushed her away. Maybe he thought that she would be useless for work or out of pity.