Happy Holidays from Tomasz Raczkiewicz!

Wesołych Świąt dla Ciebie i całej Familii. Happy Holidays to you and the whole family. Tomasz Raczkiewicz (my 2nd cousin) is in Tomaszow Lubelski for a three day visit to his parent’s home. He sent me pictures of their Christmas Eve meal and a video of the snow from the yard which he gave me permission to share. His parents are Mieczyslaw and Stanislawa. Mieczyslaw is Anthony Raczkiewicz’ (my grandfather) nephew. I believe his father is a physician and his mother worked to start schools and homes for people with disabilities. Tomasz is 47 years old, lives in Poznań and is an opera singer and actor by profession. He works at the Grand Theater in Poznań and other theaters. He is divorced and his fiance Rozalia is in the picture. He has three children who live with him. Jakub, 21, is a computer science student and twin daughters, Anna and Maryna, 19, graduated from high school this year. His children know English well but also speak French and German. Because of the time difference, Tomasz’ greeting through Facebook Messenger was at 5:00 a.m. while I was sleeping. I responded a little after 7:00 a.m. and we had a nice conversation back and forth. Unfortunately, Messenger does not automatically translate so I had to cut and paste what he was saying into Google translate. All of a sudden, he had to go -- he was at the hospital and Rozalia has a broken leg! I was sorry to hear there was a mishap during their festivities but grateful that he had reached out to share their Christmas. More family pictures at Polish Family History Facebook page.