Szypowscy Family Archive

collection Szypowscy Family Archive
authors Jan Szypowski; Jan Szypowski ps. “Leśnik”
starring Marguerite Guyot; Jan Szypowski; Jan Szypowski ps. “Leśnik”; Krystyna Szypowska; Maria Szypowska; Mirosław Szypowski
length 0:04:21
country Poland
locations Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland  Zalesie Dolne, Poland 
year 1937–1938
format 8 mm
color black and white
signature PAFD 0043 005
description

The owner of the films is Ewa Kordys, daughter of Krystyna Szypowska, granddaughter of Jan Szypowski “The forester”.

Jan Szypowski a.k.a. “The forester” – (1889–1950) colonel of armaments of the Polish Army, co-founder of the Central Industrial District, chief of armaments of the Home Army (AK), creator of the underground armaments industry, commander of the Combat Group “The forester” during the Warsaw Uprising, knight of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari War Order.
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Szypowski

Maria (née Marie) Szypowska, née Guyot (1904–1999) – teacher and author of numerous French language textbooks. For the longest time, from 1958 to 1973, she was associated with the Stefan Batory Secondary School in Warsaw. She was awarded the French Order of Academic Palms for her work.

Mirosław Szypowski (1930–2013) – teacher, since 1960 an employee of the Polish Scouting Association, commander of the Grochów troop and then of the Wola troop, president of the Polish Union of Property Owners and vice-president of the World Union of Property Owners (UIPI), chairman of the milieu of former soldiers of the Home Army (AK) “The forester” Grouping and the families.
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miros%C5%82aw_Szypowski

Jan Szypowski (1924–1954) – physicist, graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Warsaw. 

Krystyna Szypowska (born 1934) – for many years a director of kindergartens in Marysin Wawerski and Anin, educator, author of the book to teach reading “Mam 6 lat”, social activist. After Mirosław’s death, she took over his duties as chairwoman of the milieu of former soldiers of the Home Army (AK) “The forester” Grouping and the families.

Part 1 
Shots of gliders taking off. 
Part 2 
Film shot in 1937 or 1938 in Skarżysko-Kamienna (Rejów). The Szypowski family spends time at a holiday resort. Maria and Jan’s son, Mirek, plays with the dogs, swims in the pool with his brother Janek, and plays on the beach. Maria watches the boys’ antics from the pergola by the beach. 
Part 3 
The family arrives at the plot in Zalesie Dolne (Adamów) in a Tatra car. Jan chops wood. Maria’s mother, Marguerite Guyot, wearing a newspaper hat, knits in the open air. (Before retiring, Marguerite was a teacher at a high school in Bourges and an assistant to Rosa Bailly, poet and head of the Society of Friends of Poland in Bourges, working for Poland’s independence). Jan and Maria do various cleaning jobs on the plot. Krysia, the youngest of the three siblings, learns to ride her bike under her mother’s watchful eye. Mirek and Janek play between the trees. 
(AT)

keywords glider  plane  holiday resort  swimming pool  swimming  beach  pergola  allotment  wooden house  car  tatra  knitting  bicycle  fun  summer  fooling around  fiddling  housework  chopping wood  painting  family  family life  free time  child  childhood 
source of funding Polish Film Institute