We could find no information about Helena Fedorowicz. The memorial says that she fought for her family, the Woodstock Road Association and the Polish people. We guessed that she lived in Woodstock Road. See our page for the Woodstock Road Association for a possible explanation of what that fight was. Poland certainly went through turbulent times during Fedorowicz's lifetime.
We have marked this page as a puzzle since we have so little information and the memorial suggests there is a lot to know.
Since then, our colleague Andrew Behan found her full name in probate records that confirmed she lived at 48 Woodstock Road, London, N4, that she died on 8 September 1993 and that when probate was granted on 3 December 1993 her effects were listed as not exceeding £125,000. He also found that when her death was registered in the Islington registration district in September 1993 her date of birth was recorded as 25 July 1925 and her age was given as 68 years. This is at variance with the 1926 year of birth on the memorial.
2024: Mike Coleman sent in this additional information:
Helena A. Z. Kaszycka (25 July 1925, Poland – 3rd quarter, 1993, Islington) married Jan K. Galazka-Fedorowicz (27 May 1927 – Jan./Feb. 1986, Islington) in the third quarter of 1948, in Wrexham, Wales.
The naturalisation list in the London Gazette 8 June 1978 includes 3 people with the surname Galazka-Fedorowicz:
- Helena Aniela Zdzislawa; Poland; 48 Woodstock Road, N4; 20 January 1978,
- Jan Kazimierz; Poland; 48 Woodstock Road, N4; 20 January 1978,
- Karl Ferdinand; Poland; 3 Blackdale, Cheshunt Hertfordshire; 2 February 1978.
Karl, who used the simpler surname Fedorowicz, may have been Jan’s brother.
Mike writes: “I can find nothing to confirm that she was a victim of Nazi persecution, but there must have been something in her early life for her to appear in the records held by the .”
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