{"id":6532,"date":"2021-04-23T14:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sybir.bialystok.pl\/exhibit\/grzybek-zofii-sadel\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T10:33:09","slug":"zofia-dabrowskas-wooden-mushroom","status":"publish","type":"exhibit","link":"https:\/\/sybir.bialystok.pl\/en\/exhibit\/zofia-dabrowskas-wooden-mushroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Zofia D\u0105browska\u2019s wooden mushroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

Zofia D\u0105browska was taken with her mother and brother Tadeusz on February 10, 1940 from Chrask in Wolyn to poselok Wietrowal to Arkhangelsk Oblast. A few months later Zofia\u2019s older brother \u2013 Antoni joined them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Sikorski-Mayski agreement was signed, the brothers got in Anders\u2019 Army, and Zosia with her mother through the Middle East and Africa returned to Poland. The wooden mushroom is the only souvenir taken from home, which survived deportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI still have the prewar mushroom used to mend stockings. Such wooden mushrooms \u2013 inside there were needles \u2013 a stocking was pulled to mend. They gave it to me for playing (\u2026). When we were getting out of the ship they took everything from us \u2013 documents, luggage \u2013 only that mushroom to mend stockings. It was the only toy, I always had by my side and I did not give to the luggage. The mushroom travelled twenty two hundreds kilometers with me and returned to Poland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(from Zofia S\u0105del nee D\u0105browska\u2019s memoirs)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n