People

I lived in Gęsi Dwór 3, Stolarska 7. The possession, the biggest one, was lying on one of the streets (later called Zwierzyniecka street) leading to the main road. The photos come from my album:

The 1st: behind the gateway, the carpentry building. Former casein factory owned by Jew Calel Kurcgor.  On the right a part of a big house, owned by Jew Szereniec before the war. After the war it was occupied by Leszczyński family.

The 2nd: behind my sister there was the carpentry building and  farm buildings. Large area with sheds, stretching to Zwierzyniecka street. Before 1941 it was a pasture for Szareniec’s cows (milk was needed for casein production)

The 3rd: the path turned into a street. On the left there are the sheds of the carpentry building. I stand in the middle. On the right some fields. In the background there is a house on Zwierzyniecka and Morowa’s corner.

The 4th: rebuilt former carpentry building, today Mazowiecka 39D. One of 3, later 4 buildings in Gęsi Dwór.

Only the daughter of the Szereniec family survived the war. She was in the East. She returned to Białystok around 1956 and got an apartment in the first high-rise building. Later she moved to Israel with her daughter.

by Eugeniusz Andrychowski