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- Date of production 20th century
- Dimensions height: 67.5 cm, width: 42.5 cm
- Museum Family Home of John Paul II Museum in Wadowice
- Subjects photographed, famous people
- Material wood, glass, paper
- Object copyright Museum Family House of Holy Father John Paul II
- Digital images copyright © all rights reserved, Museum Family House of Holy Father John Paul II
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums project
- Tags John Paul II , portrait , Karol Wojtyła , family , 2D , photography , © all rights reserved
Portraits of loved ones (including Emilia Wojtyła) hung on a wall in a flat in Wadowice; then they got to 10 Tyniecka Street, where Karol Wojtyła and his father settled in after Karol’s final school examinations. The portraits were silent witnesses of traumatic events. One day when Karol came home, he found his father’s dead body. After this experience it was very difficult for him to return to the flat.
more Portraits of loved ones (including Emilia Wojtyła) hung on a wall in a flat in Wadowice; then they got to 10 Tyniecka Street, where Karol Wojtyła and his father settled in after Karol’s final school examinations. The portraits were silent witnesses of traumatic events. One day when Karol came home, he found his father’s dead body. After this experience it was very difficult for him to return to the flat.
He only did it because he was persuaded by Mieczysław Kotlarczyk — a Polish language teacher who inculcated the passion for theatre in Karol. After two members of his family had been sent to a concentration camp, Kotlarczyk escaped from Wadowice and arrived in Kraków. Karol offered him and his family a place to stay at Tyniecka Street. Kotlarczyk agreed, on condition that Karol came back with them.
Thanks to the Kotlarczyk family, the collection of the Family Home of John Paul II Museum not only acquired portraits, but also furniture which was transported from Wadowice (including a table and an etagere which can be seen at the exhibition in the Wadowice Museum up to this day).
Karol Wojtyła senior was a military man. After his wife’s death he took over all the duties connected with housekeeping and the raising of his sons. In the archive of the museum one can see, among others, a photograph of small Karol and Edmund wearing coats made from their father’s military coat.
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