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Maria Skǒumka and Tadeusz Alfonse Glogowski
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This is a photograph of of photograph of a photograph taken before WWII in Warsaw. Maria and Tadeusz were the grandparents of Steven, my son-in-law.
Tadeusz had been born in the Ukraine but after the Russian Revolution his
mother took him at the age of 14 and Stefan, his 16 year-old brother, to Poland. Both
brothers were Russian speakers. However Stefan did not like Poland
and returned to Russia
when he was 17 only to be arrested as a spy. He spent 8 years in Siberia before
going to live in Palestine.
Tadeusz’s mother had high hopes for him; he was
introduced to the Polish Ambassador in 1921-23 and mixed in Polish society’s
highest levels. A clever man he was a humorist but he didn’t particularly like
the ladies amongst whom his mother hoped he would find a wife. He married Maria
Skǒumka, an orphan girl whom he had met in a pub when she was 17. They had a
daughter and Stefan, a son who was to become Steven’s father. The daughter died
when Stefan was 2 years old.
Tadeusz became an accountant and worked for a Warsaw tyre company. He was
killed in 1939 when the Germans bombed Warsaw;
he did not get to the air-raid shelter with the rest of his family when his
home was hit.
It's ironic that thanks to Steven I can post this information about his grandparents but can only search census records and the like to find out about mine.
I managed a related couple in a sepia photo to link to other posts here
