Last Holidays in the Borderlands – Republic

It was the winter of 1938. As every year, my Grandma, Irena Wilżanka, was traveling for the holidays to Hat’i – the estate of her uncle and aunt Kazimierz and Zofia Peretiatkowicz – located in Volhynia, in the Łuck district.

At that time, she lived in Warsaw, where she attended a boarding school run by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. Since Worobiówka, the Wilga family estate, remained outside the borders of Poland after 1920 – on the Bolshevik side, Grandma’s mother, Irena Wilżyna, called Bapi by her grandchildren, settled permanently with her brother in Hat’i.

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