Birch bark notebook of poems written by Maria Gorniak in 1941-1943, Ozierki, Sverdlovsk Region

16/11/2022

Eugeniusz Niebelski

Photograph of a notebook made from birch bark

Notebook made from birch bark. Collection of E. Niebelski

“The notebook” is somewhat damaged, has no cover, no title, and the cover is shades of light brown; internally, it has seven pages, some of which have retained a distinct white birch colouring and bark texture; there are fragments of one more page, cracked in strips. It was stitched on the spine tightly with twine, but only a fragment of this stitching remains. Inside, on one of the blank pages, is scribbled (in an untrained childish hand?): “Gormak Władysław” and the year 1945; we do not know how to interpret this. The notebook contains well-known poems and songs by Maria Konopnicka…

Eugeniusz Niebelski is a professor at Catholic University in Lublin

Read the text in Polish here: https://swiatsybiru.pl/pl/zeszyt-z-kory-brzozowej-z-wierszami-pisanymi-przez-marie-gorniak-w-latach-1941-1943-ozierki-obwod-swierdlowski-2/

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