Author: Henryk Grocholski

The author of the memoir excerpts presented below, Janina z Rafalskich Warnecka (1901-1988), the wife of the distinguished actor and director Janusz Warnecki, was born in Poltava as the daughter of Bronisław Rafalski and Julia from the Eysymont family. Her father, an engineer-technologist, worked in this city as a specialist in the construction of waterworks….

  The manor in Biórków Wielki was built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries and is an example of a traditional manor residence. In the second half of the 19th century, the manor was rebuilt and expanded with a western wing. It is a brick, single-story, partially basement building with an eclectic…