Five Generations – Chapter V
Contents
- Chapter I — Frischman or Frischmann?
- Chapter II — The First Generation — Johann and Zofia Frischman
- Chapter III — The Second Generation — The Children of Johann and Zofia
- Chapter IV — The Third Generation — The Children of Franz Frischman and Marcjanna Fuchs
- Chapter V — The Fourth Generation — The Children of August and Wanda Salomea
- Chapter VI — The Fifth Generation — The Children of Franciszek and Wanda, née Grochowicz
- Conclusion
- Appendix I — The Pharmacy Profession in the Nineteenth Century
- Appendix II — The Criminal Case of Antoni Frischmann
- Appendix III — Stanisław Adolf’s Letters from America
- Appendix IV — Karolina Baraniecka’s Letters and the Family’s Financial Affairs
- Appendix V — The Elisabeth Commemorative Cross
- Appendix VI — Karolina Baraniecka’s Children
- Appendix VII — Building the House in Dynów
- Appendix VIII — The Adoption of Franciszek Frischman-Baraniecki
- Appendix IX — Staszek Baraniecki’s Letters from Auschwitz
- Appendix X — The Family of Filip Frischman-Baraniecki
- Appendix XI — An Account of the Ukrainian Attack on Dynów, Including Our Pharmacy
- Appendix XII — Franciszek Frischman’s Professional Placements
- Appendix XIII — Kazimierz Baraniecki’s Professional Placements
- Appendix XIV — Grant of Nobility and a Coat of Arms to Georg Frischman — 3 May 1727
The Fourth Generation — The Children of August and Wanda Salomea
All of August and Wanda Salomea’s children — and there were seven of them — were born in Dynów.
- Adolf was born in the year of their marriage, 1867. He died almost immediately after birth.
- Aleksander was born in 1870. He too died that same year.
- Zofia, born in 1872, died in 1903.
- Franciszek, born in 1874, died in 1955.
- Henryk, born in 1876, died in 1891.
- Stanisław Adolf, born in 1878, died in 1930.
- Filip Kazimierz, born in 1880, died in 1939.
A few words about each of them.
3. Zofia Banach, née Frischmann
She married Adam Banach, who was born on 1 January 1860 and died on 5 October 1928 in Kraków.
Adam was a councillor in the Kraków police administration, but he also found a place in our family history for an entirely different reason.
He is said to have tutored Jan Matejko’s children and knew many painters in Kraków.
He was acquainted with Malczewski, Wyspiański, Mehoffer, Wyczółkowski, Tondos and Fałat.
And he received paintings from them.
Because of his highly unpopular occupation as a legal adviser to the police, he once had acid thrown over him while riding in an open carriage.
Zofia did not live long.
She died on 3 April 1903 in Posada Sanocka, aged only thirty-one.
She died at the railway station, where she was given the last rites. There was a suspicion that she was pregnant, though it seems this was kept quiet.
The death record states that she died of peritonitis and a miscarriage.
The last rites were administered by the parish priest of Sanok, Bronisław Stasicki.
Zofia z Frischmannów Banachowa.
She left two daughters, Zofia and Wanda, known in the family as Dusia.
She had also had a son, Henryk, who died almost immediately after birth.
Her daughter Wanda “Dusia” Banach died unmarried on 25 May 1935, aged thirty-six. She suffered from tuberculosis and died on her way from the sanatorium in Fordon, near Bydgoszcz.
Her elder sister Zofia married Stanisław Nowakowski, an officer and veterinary surgeon.
Zofia Banach Nowakowska was born on 6 February 1892 and died on 22 October 1989 in Nowy Tomyśl, aged ninety-seven.
4. Franciszek Frischman
Franciszek Frischman, 1906.
He was born on 22 February 1874 in Dynów.
On 10 October 1892, he entered the pharmacy faculty of the Jagiellonian University.
Before that, however, as a fifteen-year-old boy, Franciszek had already been training in the Dynów pharmacy under Ludwik Giebułtowicz, a qualified pharmacist who was then its manager and also Franciszek’s godfather.
This apprenticeship lasted from 20 July 1889 to 20 July 1890. Franciszek then moved to Kraków, where he continued preparing for his studies as an apprentice at Konstanty Wiszniewski’s “Pod Gwiazdą” — “Under the Star” — pharmacy on Floryańska Street.
He completed his pharmacy studies at the Jagiellonian University in 1895 and received his Master of Pharmacy diploma on 15 July.
It was customary in those days for a newly qualified pharmacist to work in several, sometimes a dozen or more, pharmacies during his first few years — naturally, to gain experience.
If he was unable to take over a pharmacy of his own afterwards, he would at least be well prepared to apply for a position managing, or even leasing, someone else’s.
Franciszek was fortunate to have his mother’s pharmacy to fall back on. But to take it over and run it, he needed experience.
Over five years, he worked in several pharmacies.
I include a list of these places of employment in Appendix XII.
On 15 July 1900, Franciszek Frischman took over the management of Wanda Frischman’s “Pod Opatrznością” pharmacy in Dynów.
5. Henryk
He was said to have been a very gifted and promising boy.
Sadly, he later died of diabetes at about fifteen years of age. He was buried in the same tomb in the Dynów cemetery where his father August already lay.
6. Stanisław Adolf
Stanisław Adolf was born on 8 May 1878 in Dynów and died on 10 December 1930 in Buffalo, New York, USA.
His letters, my commentary on them, and the documents concerning him are included in Appendix III.
7. Filip Kazimierz
Filip Kazimierz was born on 1 May 1880 in Dynów and died on 29 March 1939 in Przemyśl.
Filip Frischman.
When he was born, his father August had barely six months left to live.
Information about Filip and his family is included in Appendix X.