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Kieszczyński Lucjan

Kieszczyński Lucjan - in glasses. Next to him are Stanisław Szczepaniak and Bogusław Stępiński, members of "Zryw" and the Zadruga movement. Near Łódź 1939-1940. From the collection of L. Kieszczyński

Born November 26, 1918, in Sosnowiec, son of Józef and Władysława née Jaroszewska, from a working-class family; his paternal ancestors were impoverished nobility from the Kalisz region, while his maternal ancestors were peasants from the Łódź area. Traditions of the left were alive in his wider family; two of his uncles (Leon Olszyca and Franciszek Skupiński) were local Łódź activists of the PPS, and Olszyca was also active in the OMTUR.

Kłopocka Janina Aniela „Lubomira”

Janina Aniela Kłopocka c. Jana Kłopockiego and Marianna née Niedźwiedzińska, born 18 August 1904 in Koźmin, Greater Poland (Prussian partition). Father was a baker.

She had two siblings – an older sister named Lucja and a younger brother named Marian.

In 1907, J. Kłopocki travels to Berlin for work and soon brings his family there. The youngest son remains with the grandparents in Koźmin. At the beginning of World War I, Janina's father is mobilized (04 VIII 1914) into the army and sent to the front, where he dies after three months; the family is maintained by the mother.

In 1921, she completed her education at the Franciscan high school in Berlin Schrönneberg. She also studied Polish language, history, and artistic literature. Since 1914, she had been a member of the Polish Gymnastic Society "Sokół".

Koniuszewska Jadwiga

Born in 1904 in Lviv, daughter of Kazimierz and Kazimiera.

In 1922, she graduated from the Klementyna Hoffmanowa Girls' High School in Warsaw. She then studied at the Municipal School of Decorative Arts and Painting (1924-1926).

In 1927-1937, she studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts (from 1932, the Academy of Fine Arts), learning under the guidance of Miłosz Kotarbiński, Leonard Pękalski, and Felicjan Kowarski. There, she met Janina Kłopocka, with whom she became friends.