Irena Fenikowska

Irena Fenikowska, from the house of Hozakowska, I voto Orzechowska (born July 2, 1923 in Toruń, died November 8, 1993 in Warsaw), wife of writer and traveler Franciszek Fenikowski, carer and donor of his heritage for the Museum of Literature and Music Kashub- Pomeranian in Wejherowo, author of memoirs.

She was the daughter of Bronisław Hozakowski, a merchant and national activist in Pomerania, and Eugenia of Bortnowski. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, she received a small degree in the Sacré Coeur high school in Pobiedziska near Poznan. Due to the war, the education was supplemented only by many years later with a diploma in economics. During the occupation, she and her family were displaced to Warsaw and worked in the seed company. After the war, she returned to Toruń and assisted her father in running a family business (until nationalization of the company); My father died in 1948, but under false allegations of spousal involvement in England she spent several years in prison.

In the 1940s, Irena Hozakowska married Tomasz Orzechowski and moved to Warsaw. She worked in the design office of the reconstruction of Warsaw and the Board of Stenographers and Engineers Association. In an anecdotal situation, thanks to a mistaken telephone connection, she met writer Francis Fenikowski. A year later, she became a wife of Fenikowski. She was a caretaker and secretary in the last years of the writer's life, died November 15, 1982, and then archivist and caretaker of the legacy. She took care of printing books and poetry books, often resigning from fees. To commemorate the public, she signed a contract to transfer the legacy of the Central Maritime Museum in Gdańsk, which did not fulfill its obligations. In this situation, after the death of Fenikowska, thanks to her son's correspondence with the writer, the diaries, unpublished materials and the rest of the legacy came to the Museum of Literature and Music Kashubian-Pomeranian Wejherowo, which in 1997 organized the first exhibition and published the book Donkey is not donkey. .

Irena Fenikowska, despite a severe illness to the end of her life, was interested in the fate of her husband's memory, and at the end of her life she also wrote two volumes of family memories. She died in November 1993 and was buried at the Old Służewska Cemetery in Warsaw next to Francis Fenikowski.

From the first marriage she had the son of Krzysztof Orzechowski, the actor and director, the director of the Kraków theaters, the actress Anna Dymna's husband. Bibliography

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