Helping the Youngest – Maria and Kazimierz Wodzicki

5/12/2024

Had it not been for the initiative of Maria Wodzicka, the help of her husband Kazimierz – Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Wellington – and the wife of New Zealand Prime Minister Janet Fraser, a group of more than 700 Polish orphans and half-orphans evacuated from Siberia would probably have wandered around the world for a long time yet. But thanks to these good people, the children have found their new home in the antipodes.

A gravestone on the cementary
Maria and Kazimierz Wodzicki’s grave in Wellington. Photo: www.gov.pl lic.: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 PL

The full article in Polish is here: https://swiatsybiru.pl/pl/z-pomoca-najmlodszym-maria-i-kazimierz-wodziccy/

English version is coming soon.

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