Katarzyna Sudaj (née Fundamenska) was born in 1980. She comes from Rogoźno Wielkopolskie, but her heart now beats for Trzemeszno. She is an economist by education, career-wise handling taxes and economic law. However, it is history that has been occupying more and more space in her life over the last four years; the history of small towns and their residents, whose lives were shaped by events of a wide scope.
“When I began to discover the tragic fate of my great-grandfather, a police officer who was beheaded on a guillotine during World War II for his service to the Homeland and his body burned in a crematorium, I felt the pain of oblivion that had existed in my family for three generations: the pain of an orphaned 8-year-old girl (my grandmother) who lost both her parents within a month. The loss of my mother, who never had a grandmother or grandfather. My emptiness because I didn't know who my ancestors were.
That's when I felt how important it is to bring back the memories about people whose traces were supposed to be erased; how important it is to create places where you can read their names, remember their fate.
No bodies, no graves. But it is possible and necessary to look for documents and traces to restore their names and stories from these crumbs, to pass on to children and grandchildren.
There is a great disapproval in me in regards to despising another human being, especially because of their nationality, religion, or skin color. Hence my natural involvement in the matter of the Jewish cemetery in Trzemeszno. Here, too, someone wanted to erase the traces and memory of former fellow residents of this town.”