BURIED TOGETHER

Partner Jerzy Zawieyski, buried together

Queer Places:
Forest Cemetery, Brzozowa, Laski, 05-080 Izabelin, Poland

Stanisław Trębaczkiewicz (1910 – August 1980) was a doctor of psychology and lecturer at the Catholic University of Lublin.

He studied in the interwar period in the Free Polish Omninica. His friend and life partner was Jerzy Zawieyski, whom he met in 1933, during a teacher's course in Wymyślin. During his association with Zawieyski, he was the editor of his publications published by the Weekly General – The Way of Catechumen (1971) and Good that they were (1974) (Library of "Ties").[3] As a lecturer at KUL, Trębaczkiewicz dealt with the development problems of school children and the development of artistic talents of children and young people. He participated in research projects on the mental needs of human work, developmental and educational psychology and the development of moral notations in children and young people.[4] He was also a consultant in psychology for the film "Visits to the President", shot according to the screenplay by Zawieyski (dir. Jan Batory, premiere 1961). He presented his psychological reflections on this film in a scientific publication.[6] Documents collected at the Institute of National Remembrance contain information that Trębaczkiewicz (together with Zawieyski) was surveillance by SB on many other occasions.

Zawieyski wrote about his life with Trębaczkiewicz: Today is the 30th anniversary of friendship with Stasi! Great emotion that it's so many years, all complicated going on. We have lived to this day in a deep inner community, attachment and deepest friendship. Become the work of my life. But I owe him so much, so much, that it is impossible to express. Thirty years ago Stas was a rural teacher, today he is a professor at the university. I was a novice, unknown writer at the time. We have both come to realize the efforts of our lives. We both helped each other. And so it will be until death. This friendship is unusual, rare, and has remained immaculate in its deepest feelings. (1963)

The homosexual relationship of both was hidden by the writer. Joseph Hennenel recalled: "I have never seen Jerzy Zawieyski with this Stasi to mention this sad fact again. It was known, it was a lasting relationship, but when he came to Krakow, he was always alone." However, they went to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska together, where they were welcomed into the monastery by the Bernardine fathers. He was buried in Lasach near Warsaw in a common tomb with Zawieyski.


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