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Handkerchief, red, synthetic with crocheted lace, approx. 24 x 24 cm.

Handkerchief, white cotton, embroidered flowers and green cotton edge, approx. 20 x 20 cm.

Handkerchief, white cotton with white cotton lace, when folded 11 x 11.5.

Handkerchief, white synthetic fabric with white cotton lace, approx. 22 x 22 cm.

Cloth, hemmed, white linen damask, 12, 5 x 5 cm.

Black slippers with brown fur trim. A gift to Ludwika Broel Plater on her name´s day 24/8 1944. She got them from the "sock-knitters" whom she was the boss of. They symbolized the return to freeedom. 16x11,5 cm.

Heart, red and blue, cotton jersey, blue yellow cord made of cotton yarn, 4 x 4 cm.

Inside the heart there is a text in Russian: “Dear Ketju! I pass on good wishes to you on the holy birthday and in the near future, I hope to be home with you and see my beloved little mother and all my friends. 24.12 Vera”.

Poetry page, “To the memory of a young French girl who will never forget your mild smile” Denise, Ravensbrück, 8/12 1944, 8.6 x 5.7 cm.

Hand mirror with handle, brass, laurel and bows, cut glass, 26 cm.

Two poems of honor dedicated to Ludwika Broel Plater from the French women’s group and women from Belgium who worked in the sock factory where there were women of many different nationalities:

Collected notes of hope, covered in cotton fabric, initials HB are embroidered in cotton on the cover, 6 x 3.3 cm. On the inside, in the front, it says Magdeburg 2.3 1943.

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A handwritten book with a few sketches, poems, and quotations of famous philosophers and authors, such Pasteur, Seneca, Nietzsche, Socrates, Pythagoras, Tolstoy, Anatole France, Shakespeare, and many others. The book is a gift to an unknown person. On the first page of the book, you can read a dedication to an unknown person from Katarzyna, Ravensbrück, 25 November 1944:

"Let these thoughts give you peace and give you light along the road in moments of despair".

22 x 16 cm.

"Welcome every day as a promise of a new light. In that light, your inner work commences. This must never stop. Think about what you have done, your own thoughts, your intentions, and what went wrong yesterday. Then, you will see them in a new light. Then your inner balance back will return. Start your life from scratch every morning, as a traveler who has rested all night and who has forgotten all the weariness and all the difficulties of yesterday to be able to go on. Dare create new hope within yourself every morning."

"Even when doubt seizes you at the crossroads,
when you do not know where to look for Christ
if you just brotherly lent each other a hand
you would find him among you…" /K. Wagner

"…There are no faults that a person, with his best intention,
cannot turn into virtue"

"… Every life has a bright side, don’t hide it in the shadows."

A notebook which includes names, addresses, prayers, poems, words of wisdom, paper folded with spine made of green wool cord, 11 x 7.5 cm. On the back is written the name Krolewska.

“We think in all humility that pain and joy
C ome from You and that You give us everything, Great, God Almighty.
This faith makes our destiny easier to bear.
O’ Lord, give us strength to endure.
Infuse faith in our souls so
that this exile is not without meaning and that we suffer for our old sins.

Forgive us our sins and weakness when
Despair assails our soul.
And when many fall under the plight of Your cross
Save us from all evil and let us
blissfully return to our homes.
Amen”