Figure 1.--This is a snapshot of Peter Hadjuk at the age of about 8 years in his first communion outfit-- a dark suit with short trousers worn with a white open-collared shirt and black long stockings worn with a bodice and supporters (what the Germans called a Streumpfhalterhemd, a sleeveless unshirt with reinforcing straps over the shoulders and four elastic garters). I´m not sure where in Poland the Hadjuk family lived, but they seem to have been a prosperous middle-class Catholic clan, probably of the merchant class.

This is a snapshot of Peter Hadjuk at the age of about 8 years in his first communion outfit-- a dark suit with short trousers worn with a white open-collared shirt and black long stockings worn with a bodice and supporters (what the Germans called a Streumpfhalterhemd, a sleeveless unshirt with reinforcing straps over the shoulders and four elastic garters). I´m not sure where in Poland the Hadjuk family lived, but they seem to have been a prosperous middle-class Catholic clan, probably of the merchant class. Peter had a sister named Ingrid for whom there is also a first communion portrait. This was just after World War II and conditions in Poland as a result of the War and NAZI occupation were terrible at the time. And the Soviet NKVD were helping Polish Communists create a police state that would launch a Soviet-style athiest campign. Inlime most other countries the Ples and theur Catholic faith woukd prove a tough nut to crack.

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