Stefania Wojtyła - nieznana historia krewnej papieża
Stefania Wojtyła - unknown story relative Pope

Summary/Abstract: Stefania Wojtyła (1891 - 1962) was a half-sister of Karol Wojtyła’s father.When Karol’s parents and his brother Edmund died, Stefania remained a next ofkin of the later Pope. She was a techer by profession, worked in Biła City and in - situated nearby - Rybarzowice village, . During the Second World War she was initiallyunemployed, and then she was teaching in German schools in Biała and Dziedzice.At that time she signed German People’s List, so called The Deutsche Volksliste. Afterthe war she was banned from working in the Biała county due to her attitude duringthe occupation of Poland. She decided to go to Stodoły village, near Rybnik in so--called Recovered Territories, where she took up a job of the headmaster of a school.She worked there until she went into retirement in 1958. The last years of her lifeshe spent in Kraków, running a household of Karol Wojtyła - then a bishop.

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