Portrait of Helena Fiderkiewicz

The bust depicts a young woman with her hair cut short, wearing a neck-revealing, sleeveless piece of clothing. The portrait was created between 1940 and 1946.
It is a plaster cast reinforced with oakum, coated with a dark brown and gray patina.
The portrait most likely belongs to the daughter of Alfred and Stanisława Fiderkiewicz. Alfred was a doctor, a pre-war activist of the Communist Party of Poland and then Polish United Workers' Party, a member of the Sejm of 1st term in the Second Polish Republic, a KL Auschwitz prisoner, president of Cracow and director of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland. From 1945 to 1949 he worked in diplomacy as chargé d'affaires in London, envoy in Montreal and Budapest. From 1948 in the PZPR, on its behalf he chaired the Trade Union of Healthcare Workers. The Fiderkiewicz family lived in Milanówek in the Alfa villa. In the memory of the inhabitants of Milanówek, Alfred Fiderkiewicz functions to this day as “Doctor Judym of Milanówek”.