Until April 30, on the wall of the Centrum metro station in Warsaw, viewers can see a mural commemorating the 79th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and people for whom love for others was of paramount importance – also during WW2.

The Daffodils social and educational campaign organized by the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews continues throughout Tuesday. Volunteers hand out daffodil badges to passers-by as a symbol of remembrance of the ghetto insurgents. This year, 368 thousand of daffodils were prepared. – as many as the number of Jewish Warsaw inhabitants had before the outbreak of World War II.

The figures presented in the wall painting include Dr Anna Braude-Heller, a doctor, pediatrician, director and head of the infant ward at the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital in Warsaw. She was the Bund member, posthumously awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari.

The mural also commemorates Stefania Wilczyńska, “Mrs. Stefa” Wilczyńska. She was an educator, lecturer, in 1912 she became the head of the Orphans’ Home for Jewish children at 92 Krochmalna Street. She co-created this place with Janusz Korczak.

One of the protagonists of the painting is also Alina Margolis-Edelman – a doctor and social activist. In the Warsaw ghetto, she was a student and a nurse at the Jewish School of Nurses. She fought in the Warsaw Uprising, for which she was awarded the Cross of Valor. After the war, she became a pediatrician.

Maria Ajzensztadt, a talented singer known as the “nightingale of the ghetto”, is also commemorated on the wall of the metro station. Crowds came to her performances. Thanks to them, the inhabitants of the ghetto were able to forget about the tragic reality for a moment. The other figures in the mural are: Pola LIfszyc; Cywia Lubetkin “Celina” and Icchak Cukierman “Antek”; Stanisław Chmielewski; Gela Seksztajn and Izrael Lichtensztajn as well as Irena Sendler and Adam Celnikier.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński