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Siblings:

Husband:
Jozef Pieniazek

Children:
Stanislaw Pieniazek
Janina Pieniazek
Marianna Pieniazek
Antoni Pieniazek
Szczepan Pieniazek
Waclaw Pieniazek
Wanda Pieniazek
Kazimierz Pieniazek

Zofia Mroczek
(Zofia Pieniazek)

 

1939

Zofia Mroczek was born in Starowola near Parysow. This village used to belong to the Polish Kings and its peasants were tenants and not serfs. Zofia’s children said that she always thought that Starowola’s peasants were more advanced culturally than the peasants from surrounding villages and that Starowola’s inhabitants had a distinct dialect from the surrounding villages populated by serfs.
     Zofia helped her husband in tending the farm and raised her seven surviving children (her daughter Marianna died in infancy). In the 1920s, she was quite active in Farmer’s Wives Clubs. These clubs were organized with the help of some rich landowners to promote education of peasants. From her activities in these clubs Zofia understood the value of education. She supported the decision of her children not to stay on the farm, but to get education beyond the elementary school level. This was not common for peasant families in pre-Second World War Poland.
     Her grandchildren remember that she kept a goat, believing that goat’s milk is very healthy for children. She made all visitors taste the milk of her goats.  As she was a wonderful person and loved by all, and especially by her grandchildren, they never dared to refuse this treat, even though goat's milk was not really popular among city dwellers in Poland at that time.
In her senior years, she got addicted to popular in Poland over-the-counter headache pills “Z Krzyzykiem” (With a Cross). As these pills were not good for her stomach, her physician suggested quietly suggested to the family that she should start to smoke cigarettes. Her youngest son, Kazik, followed this advise and thought his mother to smoke.  We remember her constantly holding a glass cigarette holder in her mouth (with or without a cigarette).  This is because she smoked filter less cigarettes "Mocne" that required a holder.
     When her husband died, the family continued yearly reunions at her house. This time they were organized to celebrate her name day, St. Sophie’s Day on May 15.


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