Gustawa Bernadyna Jadwiga Galewska (Wolberg) - The life of Gustawa Bernadyna Jadwiga Galewska (Wolberg)

Started by Kazimiera J J Cottam on Monday, December 10, 2012
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@ I met Jadwiga Galewska (Wolberg) in my early childhood, as our parents knew each other and were close friends. (I was not aware, however, of Jadwiga being also named "Gustawa Bernadyna".) She was usually called "Wisia," both in my childhood and later on. Before WWII Jadwiga attended the same private school in Czestochowa as I did, directed by a Mrs. Slonimska, a sister-in-law of the famous poet. Jadwiga and I lost contact during the War, but re-established it in peacetime, frequently corresponding. Please note that Jadwiga died in 1996 from cancer and not in 1994 (or shortly after) as erroneously indicated here. Also she didn't die in Warsaw, but in Poznan, where she lived after her marriage. ( I believe that at one time she also lived in Cracow.) Jadwiga Galewska married rather late, but her marriage appeared to be very successful. She and husband Czeslaw, who had a grown up son from his first marriage, settled in Poznan, where I visited them in 1990. After she died her husband sent me all of Jadwiga's family photographs, including those of her mother at various stages of her life and that of Jadwiga's coffin, taken in a church, presumably in Poznan, before burial at the Lutheran Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confession in Warsaw where her mother Margarita was previously buried.

@I am somewhat taken aback to learn that Jadwiga was also named Gustawa Bernadyna. As I recall, these names don't appear on her grave at the Warsaw Lutheran cemetery she is buried at. Also, I have been told by a relative--I don't remember which--that Margarita's father's name was Daniel and on Geni he is referred to as "David". Which name is correct? Moreover, apart from Irena Lange, I have not slightest idea who the people listed below are.

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