WOMEN AND CITIES IN THE BACK
Published: April 8, 2022
"STROFS WITH WIFE AND CITY IN THE TLE" – ARTICLE – INTERVIEW IN THE "KRAKOWSKIA GAZE" 12th of June 2003
AUTOR MAGDA HUZARSKA – SCHOOL "GAZETA KRAKOWSKA" 12. X 2003
Aleksander Szumański arrives in Lviv at least erstwhile a year.
No substance how the life of Alexander Szumański took place, whenever he can, he returns to Lviv – the place of his birth.
A walk through the city starts with Jagiellońska Street, where he lived in building 4 with his parents. Then he walks down 3rd May Street, where there was a cinema Muse showing films with Szczepcie and Tońcie. At 4 Jagiellońska Street lived his nanny Adela, who erstwhile looked so hard at 1 of her boyfriends that she lost her
3 year old Alka.
He was escorted home by a police officer, whose 3 year old boy was able to give an address. Then comes the time for a walk to Kościuszko Park or the Jesuit Garden, due to the fact that specified names are given to this beautiful Lviv park.
As a child, he rode down the Main Avenue Park on sleds and where he ran distant from a barber who managed to trim only half his head.
I was hysterical, and I thought I was gonna die, so I ran away. A frightened parent alerted her father, who was a prof. of medical discipline at Jan Kazimierz University, as well as a practicing doctor.
There was a consensus, but no 1 came up with what might be happening to me – says Aleksander Szumański.
But everyone but him knew what could happen erstwhile the Russians entered Lviv. However, parents did not express their concerns about a kid who might have betrayed something at school...
These Bolshevik soldiers were called "screwed with tits on our heads." I utilized to get bored in math class, and I started picking out Stalin, Marks, and Engels' eyes from an simple engineer.
The teacher saw it, but luckily, he was a decent man and he didn't do anything to me, he just showed my parents a book.
That was the first and last time I always got spanked. possibly it had an impact on the fact that I wrote my debut poem at the time, later read on Radio Lions by a well-known actor.
I was 10 years old at the time," says the poet. erstwhile the Russians left the Lviv in June 1941, which Germans were entering, I went for a walk.
I reached Brigidek on Kazimierzowska Street. The prison gate was open; I went on a lift and saw in panic on the walls flowing fresh blood and white from the human brains of the brass.
The retreating Russians murdered all prisoners, the bodies have already been taken distant – says Aleksander Szumański with horror in his voice.
He met the horrors of this planet again erstwhile the Gestapo entered his flat in Lviv at 4 Jagiellońska Street, asking about his father.
But my parents weren't home. The Gestapo settled down in Dad's waiting area and took the conversation. no of them noticed erstwhile I managed to sneak out of the apartment.
I wanted to inform my parents, of course, and I surely saved my life.
I knew parent was at her brother's, but I didn't know where Father was. I've already warned my mother, we haven't found your father.
They murdered him in a Gestapo prison on Łąckiego Street, despite the fact that German lawyer Schalay took a crucial luck from his parent for pulling him out of the hands of the Nazis, says the poet.
He went to Przemyśl, where his grandparents lived after a bath.
They were Jews, which active having to transfer the full household to the ghetto. Nothing helped that Mom and Dad had a church wedding, and I was baptized in the Lviv Cathedral.
But my smart mom didn't break down and get herself a red card that allowed her to go outside to work.
TADEUSH SIMANOWSKI – NATIONAL ARMY
There she met Tadeusz Szymanowski, who helped us. He, knowing that the ghetto would shortly be liquidated, had her come to himself on the Guilty Mountain in Przemyśl.
I got a signal from him that I'm expected to get out of the ghetto right now.
I found myself in front of an open gate where there was a blue policeman and I started running.
He did not shoot after me, he only shouted “stop”, says Aleksander Szumański.
When they and Mama had to leave Winna Góra, they boarded a train to Warsaw.
Tadeusz Szymanowski took care of and appointed Mr. Winogrodzki for our trip.
Passing through Kraków, Alexander intuitively felt that this is where they should get off. And they left in Krakow.
He was right due to the fact that they most likely wouldn't make it to D.C., but they didn't have any documents.
So they wandered around Krakow, stayed at the lodges, and spent their days in churches, hiding from the moneymakers who had already taken the fur from Mrs. Francis.
– And then Mama found out that the commandant of the navy police at the territory of Gakizien was our friend from Lviv, Major Franciszek Marian Erchard.
He was an extraordinary man who was besides the head of the AK network in Krakow.
We went to him at 2 St. Gertrude Street in Krakow. As I remember today, the servant said to us "please continue", and I did not understand, due to the fact that in Lviv it was said "please come closer" - Mr Alexander remembers.
Major Francis Erchard placed their PKO building, in an flat at 5 Zyblikiewicza Street (4th stairway) hosts Mr.
There they happily survived until the end of the war, after which Mrs. Francis married the historian Dr. Tadeusz Nowak, my stepfather.
I graduated from the Cracow University of Technology with a diploma in civilian engineering and became a construction and mycological expert.
That's why I get even more pain from visiting Lviv. I can see this town dying. They are eaten by fungi and method insects.
The method condition of residential, public and spiritual buildings is very bad. any buildings endanger public safety due to their method condition. They're expected to be renovated, painted, but it's just an apparent renovation.
In fact, they look like an old woman who put on quite a few makeup – says Aleksander Szumański writing poems about her beloved Lviv all her life.
However, since he met Alina de Croncos Borkowska's wife, Szumańska, she became the second next to the city of Lviv his muse. I went to her on the street and said I liked her a lot. She started laughing, and of course she didn't date.
But I found her address in the telephone book and sent her 1 poem all day. erstwhile I erstwhile didn't, she called me and asked me – what was going on?
Since then, we are together – confesses Alexander, who reads his love poesy to prisoners in detention in Montelupi.
– possibly my words about love will save those people, give them a small hope.
THE SHUMAN Aleksandra PASES
Aleksandra Szumański is curious in various forms of fine arts, astronomy and automotive. This second passion manifests love for good cars, especially the late acquired BMW.
CARTOTEKA
He was born on 12 November 1931 in Lviv. In 1952, he graduated from the Faculty of Land Construction at the Cracow University of Technology, becoming a civilian engineering engineer and a construction and mycological expert.
He wrote 4,000 poetic works, any of which were published in the volumes “Flying Birds”, “Polish Photography”. "Wies and Love Ballads" and "American–Lvivian Love Religions and another Failures".
In 2001, he made a tour of America. His poems were translated into English and Japanese.
THE WORDS – ADAM MACEDONIAN – ARTIST MALAR
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“The works of Alexander Szumański I appreciate for honesty and youthful naivety, which seldom happens at this age.
He is not ashamed to usage the classical patterns of Polish romanticist poetry, which is valuable, due to the fact that people are tired of experiments.”
Magda Huzarska – Szumiec ; “Gazeta Krakowska” 12. X. 2003
