Janina Kłopocka
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Janina Kłopocka - Hörspiel von "COSMO Radio po polsku" auf Deutsch
In 1971 she was awarded the “Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski”, (Knights Cross of the Order of Poland Reborn been) by the Polish state.
During the post-war years Janina Kłopocka remained in contact with the members of the Union of Poles in Germany, with whom she corresponded and met on several occasions. She had particularly strong connections with Helena Lehr and Edmund J. Osmańczyk, the former editors of the periodical, “Młody Polak w Niemczech”.
Janina Kłopocka died on 2. February 1982 in Henryków near Warsaw and was buried in the cemetery in Olesno in the region of Opole, where her brother Marian lived with his family after the war. Her sister Łucja lived for a long time with her mother in Breslau. The coffin containing the body of Janina Kłopocka was covered with a Polish flag decorated with the “Rodło” emblem. One of the speakers at Kłopocka’s grave was Edmund J. Osmańczyk, who appealed to the Boy Scouts assembled there:
Dear young friends, it is not customary to lay a flag in a grave. A flag should always remain amongst the living. This flag with the “Rodło” sign, which covers the coffin of Janina Kłopocka has already become a part of history, and I hand it over in the name of the Girl Scout, Helena Lehr, from the Scout group in Olesno. May the Scouts from Olesno return to the grave as a guard of honour every year on Janina Kłopocka’s birthday and the day she died, in honour of the Fourth Truth of the Poles, a truth lived out by Janina Kłopocka – to serve the people.
Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, December 2016
Selected sources:
Bogusław Czajkowski: Wszystko o... Rodło [Everything about... Rodło], Warszawa 1975.
Tomasz Lissowski (ed.): Joanna Kłopocka, Warszawa-Koźmin 2014.
