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| General Janusz Zarzycki (right), colonel Michal Wasserman Wróblewski - Pan Misza in the middle and general Tadeusz Pióro on the left in Warszawa during 80-ties. |
Colonel* on the right side of the photo in which Icchak Cukierman is speaking on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 1943), is the one who tried to save "Korczak's Room" and make a Korczak Museum in the attic at 92 Krochmalna.
92 Korochmalna was the address of Janusz Korczaks Orphanage. Colonel Janusz Zarzycki, actually later general and deputy National Defence Minister and thereafter the Mayor of Warsaw (and also my uncle and my wedding witness). He collaborated at that time with architect, prof. Syrakus (née Eliasberg).
The colonel's* wife, Krystyna (Zielinska-Zarzycka journalist and MP), worked during the ghetto period as a waitress in a cafe in the building at 16 Sienna Street, where Korczak's Orphanage was also located from 1941 to August 5th, 1942. Thanks to the fact that Krystyna's sister's husband (Michal Wasserman Wróblewski, Pan Misza) worked in the Orphanage House as a tutor, Krystyna got the permission from Korczak to keep a red rickshaw in the yard of the Orphanage House in Sienna.
*The colonel is described as the one who pushed through the reconstruction of the burnt Orphanage after the war. He was an architect by profession. Later, Deputy Minister of National Defense and Mayor of Warsaw - Janusz Zarzycki.
**The café at Sienna 16, headed by Tatiana Epstein, was on the ground floor. The waitresses are ladies from the best company. The cafe features Wladyslaw Szpilman. The cafe announced a competition for young talents. The reward is a week's worthy performance contract. During the three days of the competition, the hall was filled to the brim. The jury (Władysław Szpilman, Helena Ostrowska, Stefan Pomper, the architect's wife Bela Gelbard, Tatiana Epstein) awarded prizes to Stanisława Rapel (dance), Mary Berg (jazz songs), and six-year-old Szpilman's student (piano).
