Zeromskie Anna and Monika Christmas greetings card handwriting
Size 15 cm x 10 cm
Photograph is not the subject of the auction
Anna and Monika Żeromskie are two members of writer Stefan Żeromski's immediate family - they were his partner and daughter.
Anna Żeromska (owner: Anna Zawadzka),b. 1888, died 1983 painter, artist.She was Stefan Żeromski's long-term partner. Formally they were not married, but the writer treated her as his wife and in his will instructed to recognize her as his wife.She lived, among others, in Konstancin in the villa "Świt", bought by Żeromski in 1920.
Monika Żeromska born 1913 in Florence, died 2001 in Warsaw.Only daughter of Stefan Żeromski and Anna Zawadzka.Painter, illustrator and writer (author of memoirs about her father).Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.During the Warsaw Uprising she was a nurse.For many years she took care of preserving manuscripts and memory of her father's works.
In 1981: Anna was about 93 years old,Monika about 68 years old.They lived together and often made public appearances as "Mr. and Mrs. Żeromski" - guardians of the memory of Stefan Żeromski, such as in Konstancin or in museum and literary circles.
