On the anniversary of the death of Krystyna Krahelska - 2 August

She was the daughter of Jan Krahelski, an engineer, a later WP officer, the politician and Polesian voivode from 1926 to 1932 and Janina Bura, a biologist. Since 1928 a associate of the ZHP. From October 1932, she studied geography and past and then ethnography at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Warsaw. respective times she performed regional songs in front of the microphones of Polish Radio in Vilnius and Warsaw.In 1936-1937 she posed for Ludwika Nitschowa, the author of the monument of the Warsaw Mermaid.

In the Warsaw Uprising, the 1108th platoon orderly (d-ca "Wron" Karol Wróblewski) in the 3rd squadron of the 1st "Deer" Squadron of the 7th Lublin Regiment of the AK under the pseudonym "Danuta". She was injured on 1 August in the first hr of insurrection on Polna Street while rescuing an injured colleague. As a consequence of the wounds she died on August 2.

Below we present works by poet-starter in Jerzy Binkowski's interpretation.

Mermaid

She was nothing like them.

solid and dense as truth

On the sad river that carried to the sea

sea of disasters

brought here from the edge meadows

sunflowers to their death

in the first hr of the Uprising

She sprayed her blood on the flowers

nothing like sirens.

Those liars

the singing of the sailors

Until they're consumed by a deadly vortex

Nothing but singing

whose grace is granted

good and bad victims and executioners

Like rain like a blind fate

only very skilled ear

distinguishes in clear sound

cold steel from cold morning

purity of speech from pedant purity

I'm looking at you.

You're like a lonely note

which lasts – without which it will not survive

world music

Maria Dorota Pieńkowska