Bronislawa Rusek
Born in Krakow on 25 August 1923. Bronisława's parents arrived in France in 1928. Her father worked in the mines and died in an accident at work. Her mother died shortly afterwards. Bronisława became an orphan at the age of eleven. Her younger brother was sent to Poland; she was placed in an orphanage in Lyon, then in Montceau-les-Mines with the Sisters of Saint-Vincent de Paul. They sent her to the Polish high school in Villard-de-Lans. She obtained her baccalaureate in 1945 and moved to Paris, where she entered the Sorbonne. In 1946, she married Kazimierz Kalusinski, of Polish origin, a war veteran and former student at the Villard-de-Lans high school. They left for Poland in 1948. Nine years later, disappointed by the political regime, they managed to return to France. Kazimierz worked in the metal industry and Bronisława in the field of dyslexia. Bronisława died in 1988.
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