Tag #111091 - Interview #79527 (Maria Ziemna)

At school they drilled us into worshipping Pilsudski [9], and it was the same at home. When Pilsudski died , I remember that Father took us to the bank with him. My father’s bank was on the corner of the market and Szczepanska Street. There were tall windows on the first floor and chairs put right next to them, and we sat there and watched the passage of the funeral procession. [The funeral of Pilsudski on 18th May 1935 became a large funeral procession. The body was put to rest in the Wawel Castle in Cracow, where Polish kings and national heroes are buried]. And at school there were six weeks of mourning, everyone wore black bands.