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Chronicle of Bogdan BomertThe history of the family of Adam and Władysława BOMERT
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Chronology, names and images

Everything that lies scattered in the manuscript over the years 1909 to 2012, gathered in one place: the dates of the family, the people and places of the volume, the record of every image number and the thirteen enclosures with their page numbers. Two details reach beyond the manuscript: the day of death of the author, handed down by his family, and the resolution of a place name whose handwriting in enclosure 8 is not unambiguous.

Chronology
from the birth of the mother 1909 to the day of death of the author 2020
People
the Bomert family, the Szczepkowska family and the names that the author mentions in passing — plus Teresa's parents, whom enclosure 8 alone lists
Images
image no. 1 to 34 with the manuscript page on which they stand
Enclosures
thirteen items, pages 50 to 70

On the accuracy of this page

The author does not date every event. Where he writes “vermutlich” (presumably), “wahrscheinlich” (probably) or “ich weiß nicht mehr” (I no longer remember), it stands here in just the same way — the years concerned are marked with vermutlich or wahrscheinlich.

All the other details are his own. This website has added only two things: the day of death of the author, handed down by his family, and the resolution of the place name that enclosure 8 writes by hand. Every other entry names the manuscript page on which its date stands.

One contradiction is left standing

9 April 1944 is Easter Sunday, the birthday of the father and, by his recollection, the tenth wedding anniversary. The parents were married on 10 April 1937 — it would have been the seventh. Both dates stand here side by side.

1909 to 2020

Chronology

Chapters, enclosures and addendum
  • 14.10.1909Władysława Szczepkowska is born in Zeńbok near Ciechanów.page 3
  • 09.04.1912Adam Aleksander Bohmert is born in Wola Brwileńska near Płock.page 3
  • um 1912Grandma Sabina Szczepkowska marries Stanisław Fijałkowski and moves to Działdowo. Adam comes there to attend the teachers' seminary and rents a room with the family.The first encounter of the future parents.page 3
  • 11.10.1918Jan Bomert, the grandfather, dies — in the year in which his wife Josephine is expecting the youngest son Johann.page 5
  • 26.10.1933Bohdan comes into the world in Warschau (Warszawa), in the Hospital of the Child Jesus. The family stays there for three years.page 6
  • 1936Move to Działdowo, Pocztowa Street no. 4 — the family lives on the ground floor, the father earns a living as a bookbinder.page 7
  • 29.01.1937Halina is born in Łaszewo, during an excursion of the parents.page 7
  • 10.04.1937Marriage of the parents in Siemiątkowo Koziebrodzkie.The grandmother Josephine gave in only after the birth of the second child.page 7 · enclosure 3
  • 04.04.1939Teresa Chrobak, the future wife of the author, is born in Skarżysko-Kamienna — barely five months before the war.The date does not stand in the narrative text but in enclosure 8 alone.enclosure 8 · page 57
  • Summer 1939Out of fear of the war the father takes Bohdan and Halina in a one-horse carriage to Grandma Josephine in Łaszewo.page 9
  • September 1939The family leaves the house in Działdowo. At the beginning of the war Uncle Ludwig and his wife Wanda of the house of Mac are executed — the first war victims of the family.The author names no date.pages 9 and 10
  • 1940The family comes to Słoszewo, to Aunt Jadwiga, the sister of the father and headwoman of the village; in the evening they move on to Ćwiklinek, where the parents open a grocer's shop with a dairy.page 10
  • Autumn 1940Bohdan comes to Łaszewo to Grandma Józefina and attends the primary school there. Before that he had attended the German school in Płońsk.pages 12 to 14
  • 29.10.1940The twins Gizela and Renata are born in Ćwiklinek.page 11 · enclosure 6
  • Winter 1940/41Renata dies; the family drives to the funeral on a sledge. At the grave the father weeps for the first time.The author names only the season.pages 11 and 12
  • presumably 1942The parents move to Gralewo, five kilometres from Raciąż, into a large house belonging to the church, and open a grocery and textile shop.page 15
  • 11.08.1943In the centre of Gralewo ten Poles are executed by hanging. The father is forced to bring the condemned to the place of execution with his three-wheeled cart.page 16
  • 09.04.1944Easter Sunday, birthday of the father and, by his recollection, the tenth wedding anniversary. Uncle Heniek comes from Berlin for a visit.page 23
  • a few days laterAttack of partisans of the People's Army on the house; the father hurries up to the loft, where he has stored weapons, and throws a grenade from there into the yard, an incendiary device catches beside the paraffin barrel and does not ignite.page 23
  • 14.04.1944The Gestapo fetches the parents. The mother is taken to Płońsk and from there to Ravensbrück, the father to Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki.The date comes from accounts by Aunt Julianna. Halina and Aunt Danuta were convinced into old age that it had been 1943.pages 23 to 25
  • 22.04.1944Johann Bomert, the youngest brother of the father, marries Olga Krüger in Łaszewo — a few days after the arrest of the parents.page 26 · image no. 24
  • probably June 1944The grandmother visits the father in Nowy Dwór; it can be seen that he has been beaten. A fellow prisoner brings the request to collect money for a release — none of the attempts at help succeeds.page 25
  • 1944 or 1945The father is taken into a forest and shot. The exact date is unknown; he died at the age of 32.As old, the author notes, as his youngest son Paul was then.pages 25 and 47
  • 17.01.1945The Russians pass through Łaszewo, on from the direction of Radzanów towards Siemiątkowo. The house of the grandmother becomes the meeting place of the Kolm, Riemer and Bomert families.page 28
  • presumably March 1945Aunt Julianna fetches Bohdan and Halina to Konopki to Grandma Sabina; they are on the road for two days. Gizela at first stays in Łaszewo.page 29
  • 09.05.1945The end of the war. The mother waits out the end on an estate where she had hidden with a fellow prisoner.page 31
  • July 1945The mother returns to Konopki on a Sunday — two weeks after her flight from the camp. She has a small bag with her and a cross sewn into her jumper.page 30
  • Summer 1945Departure from Konopki via Nasielsk to Złotopole; the mother rents a kitchen in which four people live. Mrs Czekalińska helps with 3000 złoty, the mother begins trading in goods from Łódź.page 32
  • probably October 1945Move to Zaborowo into a wooden house — five years without electricity, with well water and a round stove.page 32
  • Autumn 1945Uncle Johann Meyer, the husband of Aunt Irena, comes to Zaborowo and secretly makes off to Germany with clothes from the mother. In 1966 he invites her to West Germany.pages 32 and 33
  • 1946Food ration coupons are introduced in Poland. The author completes the sixth class of the school on the Kaczorowy estate; his teacher is Mrs Święcka, the wife of the pigeon breeder. The mother travels with eggs, butter and poultry to Bromberg, Posen and Stettin.pages 33 to 35
  • 22. September 1946First Holy Communion in Gralewo, in the holidays after completing the sixth class.The year follows from the context; the author names only the day.page 33
  • 1946/47Halina starts school in Kaczorowy. The author attends the seventh class in Raciąż — five kilometres through the forest, in winter at up to minus 30 degrees.pages 36 and 37
  • 1947/48inferredIn the year after the seventh class circumstances improve. In the evenings the author reads “Quo Vadis” aloud to the family. Parcels of the Rossol family from America help them through the time of poverty; in one of them lie ice skates.pages 37 and 38
  • Holidays 1950Move to Witkowo, half a kilometre from Raciąż — because of the school. The author enters the eleventh class of the grammar school.page 39
  • 1951School-leaving examination at the grammar school in Raciąż. The author names three teachers: Prof. Borkowska for Polish, Prof. Kisielińska for mathematics and Prof. Zalewski for physics. Before the war the school was a Jewish synagogue.page 39 · image no. 28
  • 1951/52For a year the author helps his mother in the trade and takes the goods alone to the large cities.page 40
  • 1952A place to study mechanical engineering at the Technical University Warschau, moving into the student hostel at Grójecki-Straße 39. The second semester fails, the author returns home.page 40
  • End of July 1953Move to Danzig (Gdańsk). Mother and son work in the Danzig shipyard (Stocznia Gdańska): he in the general store at the materials issue, she in tool department W-3.page 41
  • 01.10.1953Call-up to the labour battalion, “Rozbark” mine in Bytom. From his twentieth birthday until 20 December 1955 the author works underground, at a depth of 660 metres.pages 41 and 42
  • June 1955Halina receives her school-leaving certificate; Gizela attends school no. 8 in Danzig, she still has three years to her school-leaving examination.page 42
  • 21.12.1955Return from the labour battalion. In the meantime the mother has been given the flat ul. Zakopiańska 16, flat 7, by the shipyard — two rooms, kitchen, bathroom.pages 42 and 43
  • 06.01.1956The author begins working in the Danzig shipyard again, at first on a small lathe.page 43
  • 01.05.1956First post as technical draughtsman in the design department of the Danzig shipyard. Later follows the evening course in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Danzig.page 43
  • 27.05.1956At a school ball the author meets Teresa of the house of Chrobak. As he enters the hall the white tango is being played; she asks him to dance.page 43
  • October 1956Halina begins working for the administration of the postal directorate. „Bei drei arbeitstätigen Personen einer vierköpfigen Familie wurde das Leben etwas einfacher.“(With three working people in a family of four life became a little easier.)page 43
  • 08.02.1958Halina Bomert and the sailor Stanisław Kowalski marry.page 43 · enclosure 7
  • 02.06.1958Gizela passes her school-leaving examination and, after a further training, begins at the Danziger Fernseher Werke.page 44
  • 30.05.1959Marriage of Bogdan and Teresa at the Danzig registry office; church wedding on 4 July 1959 in the parish church of the Emmaus quarter.page 45 · enclosure 8
  • Autumn 1959Fifteen years after the operation the signs of the illness of the mother return. Radiotherapy in the oncological hospital in Sopot — „Gott schenkte uns weitere 10 Jahre mit unserer Mama“.(God granted us another 10 years with our mama.)pages 45 and 46
  • 16.04.1966Gizela marries Adolf Gruszyc, at the registry office and in church in the parish church of the Emmaus quarter. The couple moves into the “Junge Viertel” (young quarter) in Wrzeszcz.pages 46 and 47 · enclosure 9
  • 1966Uncle Meyer, who escaped to Germany in 1945 with the help of the mother, invites her to West Germany. Her exit is refused several times, only the reference to Ravensbrück helps.pages 32 and 33
  • 30.03.1969The mother dies. The author writes that the cancer that had attacked her in 1944 had not let go.page 47
  • 2000The author travels with Jürgen and Egon to Płońsk and photographs the house of Uncle Heniek — „es war in einem erbärmlichen Zustand“ (it was in a pitiful state).page 12
  • 20.03.2010Halina dies unexpectedly while she was in Danzig. The author notes that he can no longer ask her about details.page 44
  • 20.03.2012The author meets Mrs Giszczak, the daughter of the community head of Raciąż, who tells him of the help of his parents for the Poles.page 17
  • 21.03.2012The author travels to Działdowo specially and photographs the house in which his parents met and the house in which the family lived until 1939.pages 4 and 9 · image no. 1 and 10
  • July 2012The manuscript is signed in Baunatal: „Ich danke für Euer Verständnis. Bogdan“.(Thank you for your understanding. Bogdan.)page 48
  • 22.02.2020Bogdan Bomert dies in Baunatal.The only entry on this chart that does not come from the manuscript.addendum by the family

Names

People

alphabetical, with a reference to the chapter
  • Adam Aleksander Bohmert (Bomert)Father · 1912 to 1944/45Born on 9 April 1912 in Wola Brwileńska near Płock. Bookbinder in Działdowo, then merchant with a grocery, textile and dairy business in Ćwiklinek and Gralewo. Member of the Armia Krajowa, arrested on 14 April 1944, beaten and tortured in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, shot in a forest.chapters 1 to 4
  • Władysława Bomert, née SzczepkowskaMother · 1909 to 1969Born on 14 October 1909 in Zeńbok near Ciechanów. Arrested two weeks after a cancer operation and taken to Ravensbrück, back in July 1945. After the war a trader between the markets of Raciąż and the towns on the Baltic.chapters 1 to 4
  • Jan BomertGrandfather · died 1918Died on 11 October 1918, when his wife was pregnant with the seventh child. The second leaf of the manuscript is devoted to him; the volume names no date of birth, no profession and no place of death.pages 2 and 5
  • Josephine (Józefina) BomertGrandmotherWife of Jan. Brought the author up in Łaszewo from 1940 to the end of the war, held the household together and sent food parcels to Ravensbrück. After the invasion she had to work as a servant in her own house.chapters 2 and 3
  • Ludwig Bomert and Wanda, of the house of MacEldest brother of the fatherBoth were executed at the beginning of the war — the first war victims of the family.pages 5 and 10
  • Sigismund BomertBrother of the fatherFather of Egon, Heinz, Jürgen and Peter. In the year 2000 Egon and Jürgen travelled with the author to Płońsk.pages 5 and 12
  • Irena Meyer, née BomertSister of the fatherLived in Siemiątkowo Koziebrodzkie. During the occupation her household employed a Polish family, who protected her after the invasion and brought her to the station at Raciąż. In 1966 her husband invited the mother to West Germany.pages 5, 15, 28 and 33
  • Henryk (Heniek) Bomert and KarolaBrother of the father, family chroniclerLived in Płońsk in a single-storey house. The author lived with him while he attended the German school in Płońsk. After the war Karola came to Złotopole with her sister to fetch the children — the mother was not there.pages 5, 12 and 32
  • Jadwiga BomertSister of the fatherIn 1940 headwoman of Słoszewo; through her contacts in the offices of Płońsk she brought it about that the father could open a shop. Later spent some time in a camp for Germans in Lublin.pages 5, 10 and 28
  • Johann Bomert and Olga KrügerYoungest brother of the fatherIt was with him that the grandmother was pregnant on 11 October 1918. In the war years he came to Łaszewo whenever he was off duty and played draughts with the author. Marriage on 22 April 1944 in Łaszewo.pages 5, 26 and 27
  • Bohdan, later Bogdan BomertAuthor · 1933 to 2020Born on 26 October 1933 in Warschau (Warszawa) in the Hospital of the Child Jesus. Technical draughtsman in the Danzig shipyard, studies of mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Danzig, profession until retirement. Writes the volume in 2012 in Baunatal and dies there on 22 February 2020.throughout · day of death as given by the family
  • Halina Kowalski, née BomertSister · 1937 to 2010Born on 29 January 1937 in Łaszewo. From 1956 in the administration of the postal directorate, from 1958 married to the sailor Stanisław Kowalski. Three sons: Krzysiek, Andrzej and Marek. Died on 20 March 2010 in Danzig.chapters 2 to 4
  • Gizela Gruszyc, née BomertSister · born 1940A twin child of 29 October 1940, survived the pneumonia of the first weeks of life. School-leaving examination in 1958, afterwards at the Danziger Fernseher Werke; married Adolf Gruszyc on 16 April 1966. The recollections of enclosure 12 come from her.chapters 2 to 4 · enclosure 12
  • Renata BomertTwin sister of Gizela · died 1940/41Came into the world on 29 October 1940, was weak from the beginning and died in the winter. The volume carries no certificate for her.pages 11 and 12
  • Teresa Bomert, née ChrobakWife of the authorMet on 27 May 1956 at a school ball; married Bogdan at the registry office on 30 May 1959 and in church on 4 July 1959.pages 43 and 45
  • Jan and Stanisława DulińskaParents of Teresa · parents-in-law of the authorEnclosure 8 lists them as follows: the father with the first name Jan — he bears the family name of the bride — and the mother as Stanisława, née Dulińska. It was with them that the young couple moved in after the week in the Zakopiańska-Straße (ulica Zakopiańska): two rooms with a kitchen, no bathroom, ten people besides the two of them. No place in the volume names their own life dates, a date of marriage or further children.enclosure 8 · page 57 · page 45
  • Sabina Szczepkowska, married FijałkowskiGrandmother on the mother's sideMarried Stanisław Fijałkowski around 1912 and moved to Działdowo. In the spring of 1945 she took in the children of the family in Konopki — „wie eine Glucke ihre Küken“ (like a hen with her chicks).pages 3, 7 and 29
  • Stanisław FijałkowskiStepfather of the motherHusband of Grandma Sabina and stepfather of Władysława. It was with him and the grandmother that Adam rented his room in Działdowo in 1912.pages 3 and 4
  • Zofia (Zosia), Jan (Janek), Stanisława (Stasia), Kazimierz (Kazik), Julianna (Jula) and JózefSiblings of the motherThey stand with Grandma Sabina in image no. 2. In the spring of 1945 Julianna fetched Bohdan and Halina to Konopki and later knew that the arrest of the parents had happened on 14 April. After the arrest Zofia stayed with the children in Gralewo.pages 4 and 23 to 29
  • Aunt DanutaInformant of the authorFrom her the author has it that Aunt Jadwiga was headwoman of Słoszewo and that a released fellow prisoner asked the family for money for the release of the father. She was convinced that the arrest had been in 1943.pages 10 and 25
  • Mrs CzekalińskaAcquaintance of the family in PłońskTook in the author during the occupation while he attended the German school in Płońsk. After the war she lent or gave the mother 3000 złoty so that she could support the family.pages 12 and 32
  • Mr and Mrs GiszczakInformants in GralewoThe community head of Raciąż said to the author on the telephone: „Ihre Eltern haben den Polen geholfen, wo sie nur konnten, und das hatte fatale Folgen für sie.“(Your parents helped the Poles wherever they could, and that had fatal consequences for them.) He had it from his mother; the author met Mrs Giszczak on 20 March 2012.page 17
  • Święcki and Mrs ŚwięckaPigeon breeder and teacherŚwięcki bred the pigeons of the father in Gralewo; his wife was a teacher on the Kaczorowy estate when the author completed the sixth class there.pages 15, 33 and 37
  • The Kolm familyRelatives and neighboursThe first wife of Kolm was the sister of Grandma Józefina Bomert; from that marriage come Bruno, Lenchen and Genia, from the second Edith, Miriam, Harry and Richard. The family was taken to the Łambinowice camp for some years.pages 14 and 29
  • The Riemer familyRelatives in ŁaszewoWith them the author felt „ähnlich verwandt“ (similarly related). The daughters Alicja and Nell or Nelli went to school with him.page 14
  • The Rossol family and August SchmalzHelpers after the warFrom America came parcels that helped „die Zeit der Armut zu überstehen“ (to get through the time of poverty); in one of them lay ice skates. Rossol was the uncle of August Schmalz, the first husband of Aunt Jadwiga.page 38
  • RokitniccyNeighbours in ZaborowoOn evenings on which there was nothing to eat they brought the children a loaf of bread and a jug of milk.page 35
  • Prof. Borkowska, Prof. Kisielińska, Prof. ZalewskiTeachers at the grammar school in RaciążBorkowska broadened his Polish vocabulary, Kisielińska awakened his interest in mathematics, Zalewski taught about rifles instead of physics.page 39
  • Paul, Krzysiek, Andrzej, Marek, Egon, Heinz, Jürgen, PeterChildren and nephews of the familyPaul is the youngest son of the author — in the year 2012 as old as his grandfather Adam when he died. Krzysiek, Andrzej and Marek are the sons of Halina. Egon, Heinz, Jürgen and Peter are the sons of Sigismund.pages 5, 46 and 47

Places

Where this story takes place

from Masovia to Danzig (Gdańsk) · plus Teresa's place of birth
  • Warschau (Warszawa)MasoviaPlace of birth of the author in 1933; home of the family until 1936. Here the mother was operated on in 1944, here the author was able to study mechanical engineering from 1952 — and failed in the second semester.pages 6, 23 and 40
  • Wola Brwileńska near PłockPlace of birth of the fatherPlace of birth of Adam Aleksander Bohmert on 9 April 1912.page 3 · enclosure 1
  • Zeńbok near CiechanówPlace of birth of the motherPlace of birth of Władysława Szczepkowska on 14 October 1909.page 3 · enclosure 2
  • Działdowo1936 to September 1939Here the parents found each other, here the father attended the teachers' seminary, here the family lived on the ground floor of Pocztowa Street no. 4. In 2012 the author travelled there specially to photograph the two houses.pages 3, 4, 7 to 9
  • PłońskCounty townHome of Uncle Heniek and Aunt Karola, the school place of the author during the occupation, the place of the interrogation centre to which the mother was brought after the arrest. Five kilometres from Słoszewo.pages 10, 12, 24
  • Słoszewonear Płońsk1940 first refuge with Aunt Jadwiga, the headwoman.page 10
  • Ćwiklinek1940 to 1942Grocer's shop with a dairy, a cheese cellar and egg purchasing; place of birth of the twins Gizela and Renata.pages 10 to 12
  • Gralewopresumably from 1942Five kilometres from Raciąż. A large house belonging to the church, a grocery and textile shop, the village of the happy years — and of the execution of 11 August 1943. Here the family was torn apart in April 1944.pages 15 to 24
  • ŁaszewoHouse of Grandma Józefina1953 from 1940 to the end of the war the home of the author, with five ponds for king carp, and a refuge for Halina and Gizela after the arrest of the parents.pages 14 and 21
  • Siemiątkowo KoziebrodzkieMarriage place of the parentsHere Adam and Władysława were married on 10 April 1937; here later lived Aunt Irena Meyer, with whom the children found shelter during the entry of the Russians.pages 7, 15 and 28
  • KonopkiHouse of Grandma SabinaSpring to summer 1945: fifteen people at the table, an ox as draught animal, millstones, peat cutting — and in July the return of the mother.pages 29 to 31
  • Zaborowo1945 to 1950A wooden house with one large room, a well, a round stove, no electricity. Five years of poverty and school bench; here the evenings were spent with “Quo Vadis”.pages 32 to 38
  • Witkowo and Raciąż1950 to 1953A flat near the school, grammar school, school-leaving examination in 1951 in the former synagogue. Raciąż is the place that the mother leaves at the end: „Es gab keine Zukunft mehr für uns.“(There was no future left for us.)pages 39 and 40
  • KaczorowySchool on an estateHere the author attended the fifth and sixth class in 1946, together with 18- and 20-year-olds, and Halina joined them in 1946/47.pages 33 and 37
  • Złotopole, Nasielsk, BaboszewoStages after the warA night's lodging with the priest, intermediate stops on the way back to Gralewo, shopping with food ration coupons.pages 32 and 35
  • Nowy Dwór MazowieckiPlace of the father's imprisonmentHere Adam Bomert was held prisoner, beaten and tortured — „in unmenschlichen Verhältnissen“ (in inhuman conditions).page 25
  • RavensbrückWomen's concentration campFrom April 1944 until the evacuation in the spring of 1945. The mother told of the smoking chimney as the first sight of the morning; a cross was sewn into her jumper when she came back.pages 24, 27, 30 and 31
  • Bytom and the Rozbark mine1953 to 1955Labour battalion instead of military service, timber brigade underground, 660 metres deep. A rock burst only grazed the author on the shoulder.pages 41 and 42
  • Danzig (Gdańsk)from the end of July 1953The Danzig shipyard, the “Narwik” hotel near Nowy Port, a flat in the Zakopiańska-Straße 16, the Emmaus quarter, Wrzeszcz. Here three families came into being and the life of the mother ended in 1969.pages 41 to 47
  • Sopot and JelitkowoNeighbouring places of DanzigIn 1953 Jelitkowo was the first lodging of the mother with the daughters; in Sopot stood the oncological hospital in which she was irradiated in 1959.pages 41, 45 and 46
  • Skarżysko-KamiennaTeresa's place of birthPlace of birth of Teresa Chrobak on 4 April 1939, barely five months before the war. Enclosure 8 writes the place by hand, and what stands there can be read as „Skawińsko-Kamienna“ — no town of that name exists. What is meant is Skarżysko-Kamienna on the Kamienna, 32 kilometres north of Kielce: in 1928 the town came to its present name, and in 1939 more than 4500 people worked in its weapons factory. No page of the manuscript names the place; the volume knows Teresa only as a woman of Danzig.enclosure 8 · page 57 · place name as given by the family
  • BaunatalPlace of the manuscript · died 2020Here the author closes his narrative in July 2012 and signs with his first name; here he dies on 22 February 2020.page 48 · addendum by the family

On the spelling of the places. The author names the places in the form in which he experienced them: Bromberg, Posen and Stettin are called Bydgoszcz, Poznań and Szczecin in present-day Poland, Gdingen is called Gdynia. This website keeps his forms in the text and lists the customary equivalents here. It is different with the one place name that was not written by the author but by enclosure 8: its handwriting can be read as „Skawińsko-Kamienna“, and no town of that name exists. The entry therefore stands under Skarżysko-Kamienna on the Kamienna — the resolution that the family confirms.

Record

Image index

Image no. 1 to 34

Every image number of the manuscript with the page on which it stands and the file under which it lies in this edition. The portrait of the grandfather on page 2 carries no number; it is listed here as a leaf without number.

Image numbers and manuscript pages
ImageManuscript pageFile of this edition
without number2jan-bomert-portraet.jpg
Image no. 13bild-01-haus-dzialdowo-2012.jpg
Image no. 24bild-02-familie-der-mutter.jpg
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Image no. 46bild-04-papa-der-verliebte-student-1.jpg
Image no. 56bild-05-papa-der-verliebte-student-2.jpg
Image no. 67bild-06-spaziergang-tante-jadwiga-1.jpg
Image no. 77bild-07-spaziergang-tante-jadwiga-2.jpg
Image no. 88bild-08-gdingen-1.jpg
Image no. 98bild-09-gdingen-2.jpg
Image no. 109bild-10-haus-dzialdowo-1936.jpg
Image no. 1110bild-11-cwiklinek-geschaeft.jpg
Image no. 12a11bild-12a-cwiklinek-mama.jpg
Image no. 12b11bild-12b-cwiklinek-molkerei.jpg
Image no. 1313bild-13-cwiklinek-kinder.jpg
Image no. 1414bild-14-schulkinder-laszewo.jpg
Image no. 1515bild-15-gralewo-geschaeft.jpg
Image no. 1617bild-16-die-eltern.jpg
Image no. 1718bild-17-das-quintett.jpg
Image no. 1818bild-18-das-trio.jpg
Image no. 1919bild-19-papa-mit-den-toechtern.jpg
Image no. 19a19bild-19a-gizela-mit-papa.jpg
Image no. 19b20bild-19b-gizela-mit-mama.jpg
Image no. 2020bild-20-in-laszewo.jpg
Image no. 2121bild-21-papa-fischt.jpg
Image no. 21a21bild-21a-haus-laszewo.jpg
Image no. 2222bild-22-die-mutter.jpg
Image no. 22a22bild-22a-die-mutter-zweit.jpg
Image no. 2326bild-23-oma-jozefina.jpg
Image no. 2427bild-24-hochzeit-johann-bomert.jpg
Image no. 24a29bild-24a-mahlsteine-konopki.jpg
Image no. 2533bild-25-meyer-und-freunde.jpg
Image no. 2634bild-26-kirchgang-gralewo.jpg
Image no. 2737bild-27-schulklasse-kaczorowy.jpg
Image no. 27a38bild-27a-jadwiga-kinder-mama.jpg
Image no. 2839bild-28-abitur-1951.jpg
Image no. 2941bild-29-holzbrigade-rozbark.jpg
Image no. 3042bild-30-bei-der-armee.jpg
Image no. 3144bild-31-halina-und-stanislaw.jpg
Image no. 3245bild-32-bogdan-und-teresa.jpg
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Why the count jumps. The author assigns numbers with letters when two photographs stand on one page — 12a and 12b, 19a and 19b, 21a, 22a, 24a, 27a. The highest number is 34; in this edition 41 photographs with a number are counted, plus the unnamed leaf of the grandfather.

Record

The thirteen enclosures

Pages 50 to 70
  • Enclosure 1 · p. 50Abridged copy of the birth certificate of Adam.anlage-01-geburtsurkunde-adam.jpg
  • Enclosure 2 · p. 51Abridged copy of the birth certificate of Władysława.anlage-02-geburtsurkunde-wladyslawa.jpg
  • Enclosure 3 · p. 52Complete copy of the marriage certificate of Adam and Władysława.anlage-03-heiratsurkunde-adam-wladyslawa.jpg
  • Enclosure 4 · p. 53Abridged copy of the birth certificate of Bogdan.anlage-04-geburtsurkunde-bogdan.jpg
  • Enclosure 5 · p. 54Abridged copy of the birth certificate of Halina.anlage-05-geburtsurkunde-halina.jpg
  • Enclosure 6 · p. 55Abridged copy of the birth certificate of Gizela.anlage-06-geburtsurkunde-gizela.jpg
  • Enclosure 7 · p. 56Marriage certificate of Halina and Stanisław Kowalski.anlage-07-heiratsurkunde-halina-kowalski.jpg
  • Enclosure 8 · p. 57Marriage certificate of Bogdan and Teresa Chrobak.anlage-08-heiratsurkunde-bogdan-chrobak.jpg
  • Enclosure 9 · p. 58Marriage certificate of Gizela and Adolf Gruszyc.anlage-09-heiratsurkunde-gizela-gruszyc.jpg
  • Enclosure 10 · p. 59Report on the AK activities of Adam Bomert.anlage-10-bericht-ak-adam-bomert.jpg
  • Enclosure 11 · p. 60Map of the villages from the story about Adam and Władysława.anlage-11-karte-der-ortschaften.jpg
  • Enclosure 12 · p. 61–69The recollections of Gizela, twelve leaves.anlage-12-gizelas-erinnerungen-01.jpg to -12.jpg
  • Enclosure 13 · p. 70The “Ave Maria” recording — present in the manuscript only as an explanation, the sound recording itself is not part of the source.

How to use this register

Whoever wants to know what is documented reads the chronology from top to bottom: every entry names the manuscript page on which the date stands. Whoever wants to know what the author himself did not know looks for the passages with vermutlich or wahrscheinlich — they are the most honest sentences of the volume.

The image index follows the numbering of the author, not the order of this website: on the chapter pages some photographs appear in a different place than in the manuscript, because there they belong to the narrative and not to the page on which they are printed.

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