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Olga Aleksandra Jackowska was born on June 8, 1951 in Kraków as the fifth and youngest child in the family. Her parents Emilia and Marcin were repatriates from the east who worked as civil servants. Their financing situation was not the best. They often lacked basic expenses. As a family of seven, they lived in a 30-meter apartment. The situation got even worse when Emilia’s mother fell ill with tuberculosis. At the age of four, Kora and her older sister Anna were sent to an orphanage in Jordanów run by nuns.
Staying in an orphanage. For five years she wasn’t Olga, but only number eight
A center run by nuns in Jordanów gave 4-year-old Olga number eight. In addition, she was separated from her then 11-year-old sister Anna and forbidden to see each other. The children were mistreated, beaten and humiliated. The artist spent 5 years of her childhood there. Kora’s sister Anna Kubczak childhood
It would seem that we live under the same roof, but we were separated. We couldn’t play, we couldn’t talk, I couldn’t hug her. It was very traumatic. There were no feelings there, although nothing bad happened to us. In retrospect, I believe it was a love crime.
About the cruel practices of nuns towards children in an orphanage. Her babysitters also constantly intimidated her with, for example, ghost stories. However, it was the physical and psychological violence that was the most severe. Nuns, but also twisted ears, ordered to kneel on peas and corporal punishment by older children.
My ears were so twisted, torn, they literally hung off my head. At the end of the week we were all gathered together and there was a public display of pantyhose. They were supposed to be white, but after a week of use they couldn’t be white! And punishment. If they didn’t hit us themselves, the older child was supposed to beat the younger one. We had no names. No one called me Olenko or Gwiazdeczko, as my mother called me. I was number eight.
Harassment by a priest. She revealed her traumatic experiences only years later
During her stay at the centre, the singer of the band Maanam also recalls Sunday mornings when the parish priest came to visit. After finishing breakfast, the priest treated the children with sweets, which were placed in the deep pockets of his trousers under the cassock. The charges of the nuns were to find them on their own.
He didn’t give them to us himself. The girls had to go one by one and rummage through these pockets to find the candy. And by the way, they were rummaging, you know where.
9-year-old Kora also stayed lured to the priest’s apartment under the pretext of a treat. The girl was the victim of sexual harassment. The artist revealed this in 2010
He was a smelly old man who stuck his tongue in my mouth and fumbled in my pants. When I looked at him on the street before, he didn’t seem so disgusting to me, but when he started getting at me, he was.
Her father died before her eyes. She tried to commit suicide several times
After five years, Olga and Anna returned to their apartment at Grottgera in Krakow, when their mother’s health improved. However, the nightmare of the young singer was not over. Right after she left the orphanage, her father died of a heart attack. Exactly that Kora, then 9 years old, found his body. After traumatic events and the recurrence of her mother’s illness, she moved in with her aunt and uncle in Jabłonowo Pomorskie. She remembers her stay with her relatives as an unhappy time when her aunt constantly abused her. She lived in constant paranoia and stress and doesn’t even remember if she attended school at the time.
Unfortunately, an unhappy childhood left Kora with great havoc in her adult life. The singer did not avoid parties, alcohol and drugs. She also tried to take her own life many times. In 2012, she admitted:
As a child, I wanted to die a million times. As I fell asleep, I imagined I would never wake up.
The first time she ate plasticine as a child. After Dad died, she made a second attempt. She then took all the drugs she found at home. She made her third suicide attempt as a teenager, when she put razor blades in a stool and banged her wrists on them. When she began to suffocate, she realized that she wanted to live. Fortunately, she was noticed by a neighbor and miraculously saved her.
If your life is at risk due to suicidal thoughts or attempted suicide, for immediate crisis intervention, call the police on 112 or go to the A&E department of your local psychiatric hospital.
If you need to talk to a psychologist, you can use the number 116 123. On the website you will also find a list of organizations that run telephone services for mental health specialists, help for children and youth or victims of violence.
Source: Gazeta
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