Photograph for documents of Bolesława Barlińska

The photograph of Bolesława Barlińska, probably peeled off a long-distance public transport ticket (from Warsaw; fragments of a stamp in the upper left and lower right corner) - with a signature indicating that it was taken during the war. | She was the daughter of Henryk and Eleonora Goldmacher. Agnieszka Wróblewska, asked by the Museum curators to share her mother's memory, described Bolesława Barlińska in a letter as follows: She came from a middle-class family. I never met her father, that is my grandfather, he died, as far as I know, when my mother was 19 years old [in 1921]. [...] she completed higher commercial courses - that's how she referred to it, today we would probably call it a post-secondary school. From the age of 19 she worked in offices as a clerk, I know that her last job before the war was the management of the Tomaszów Artificial Silk Factory; the factory was located in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, but the management was in Warsaw. During the war she also worked in the office all the time; I don't know the company, but I know that it was a company under German administration, so they didn't know the origin of my mother, who changed her maiden name - like many other people in such a situation - to Złotowska at the beginning of the war. | We survived the war in Żoliborz, where we moved from the house at Rozbrat 6. It was a proprietary cooperative in which my parents bought a four-room flat of 113 m in the early 1930s (the house survived the war almost unscathed and is still in good condition). Immediately after the war, my mother found my father's sister, aunt Ziuta, who was already working in Lublin in the administration of the local university [cf. note to photo MPOLIN-A25.1.67 with a quotation from Feliks Mantel's diary - note by PK]. Ziuta ordered us to come immediately, she found a job and a flat for my mother. We went to school there for a couple of months, but mum contacted the management of Tomaszów Artificial Silk Factory, where she was remembered from before the war, and she was offered a job in the office and a flat, so we moved from Lublin to Tomaszów. Not for long, because mum was transferred to a branch of that factory in Wrocław. My brother went to Gdańsk to stay with my aunt Ziuta, he finished high school there and then went to his dreamed-of agricultural studies in Łódź. After graduating from high school in Wrocław, I went to study journalism in Warsaw. | Bolesława Barlińska died in 1985, having outlived her brother Marian Goldmacher (Godecki) by ten years.