My memories of Marysia On 25th December Marysia was celebrating Christmas with Peter and Samira and their friends. Today 25th January we are saying goodbye to this very special person. Marysia was a popular, well loved lady who lived life to the full. She was a colourful character with an elegant demeanour and a vivacious personality. She had a charming persona and an engaging manner. Marysia was really a socialite. She made an immediate impression on anyone she met. She relished going to parties, she enjoyed meeting new people and mixed well with all age groups. Peter and Samira included her in so much of their life. She went with them to concerts, films, plays, ballets and restaurants. She liked to recall what she had been doing and her Joie de Vivre attitude was a delight. She was an experienced bridge player and an avid reader. In earlier years she had been an accomplished dressmaker and artist. She was a very stylish, chic person. She was strong minded, decisive, resolute, determined to keep fit and healthy for as long as she could. She walked daily, exercised at home and was proud to be able to look after herself with minimal help. Marysia experienced very difficult tragic early years in Nazi occupied Poland resulting in much suffering for her and her family, times that she could never ever forget, times which stayed with her forever as an underlying sadness to her outer exuberant self. Marysia was a survivor. She arrived all on her own in England seventy years ago and succeeded in creating a successful life for herself in spite of everything. She will always be remembered. She will be close to my heart together with my parents who were the only other members of our family in England when she arrived here. Dear Marysia, Rest in Peace