The mystery of the missing girl in the center of Lodz. Where is Anna Janowska? The missing girl disappeared without a trace on April 16, 2023

2023-04-16 16:13:00

We remind you of the case of the missing girl. 11-year-old Ania Janowska left her home in the center of Łódź and disappeared without a trace. This event shook Łódź years ago. The mystery of the girl’s disappearance in Łódź is still unsolved.

Today Ania she would be over 40. Maybe she would be a doctor, maybe an economist, or maybe she would become a famous dancer, singer or model? No one will answer this question. Patricia Wojtowicz she is Anna’s peer. Although she never met her in person, the memory of this unknown girl accompanied her for years. With flushed face, she watched television programs about Ania’s disappearance.

– This case moved me very much – says Patricia today. “The same thing could have happened to me.” I remember that after the TV announcements, my mother was afraid to let me out of the house. Anna has become close to me. I wondered what could have happened to her. She was so pretty and talented. I was reminded of this recently as well. I wondered if something had been clarified, because once it was loud about it, then everything fell silent. No one ever mentioned this disappearance…

Let’s go back to the events from over 30 years ago. It was Saturday September 16, 1989 Another school year has just started. Ania, like many of her colleagues, she returned from vacation. She started her education in the fifth grade of Primary School No. 150 at ul. Żwirki in Łódź. Today, this elementary school does not exist, in its place there is Junior High School No. 25. Krzysiek attended Ania to the class. Even though so many years have passed, he remembers her very well.

Because she was a nice friend – Krzysiek told us. – Sweet, she didn’t exaggerate. Although she was a very good student, she was not the top-class type. She was always willing to help everyone.

Krzysiek remembered that Ania was sitting in the pew with Hania. Today he won’t remember if he was in the middle row or by the wall. He was also at her house once.

– We lived close, basically on the opposite side of the street – adds Krzysiek.

Mrs. Sophia was Anna’s teacher. From first grade. One thing can be said about her: she was a wonderful girl.

Anyway, the whole class was very nice, I remember it very fondly – Mrs. Zofia told us. I tutored her from first to eighth grade.

16th of September parents bought Ania espadrilles – white, canvas shoes with soles made of string. Back then it was every girl’s dream. Ania she put on espadrilles and at approx. 13 left the house. She was supposed to go to the pharmacy for eye drops, which were made to order. On the way, she was supposed to buy sauerkraut. To the pharmacy, which was located in the building of a department store that no longer exists Juventus she wasn’t far away. She lived at al. Kosciuszko. Just had to cross the street. Then the girl was to go to a small market nearby “Central” Shopping Center. And there, in one of the greengrocers, buy cabbage. Then she was supposed to go home.

But Anna never came home. When she did not appear with him after several dozen minutes, her worried parents started looking for her.

In Michał Fajbusiewicz’s program “997” an attempt was made to reconstruct Ania’s path on the day she disappeared.

On a popular TV show Michał Fajbusiewicz “997” road was reconstructed Years. The girl playing her character leaves the tenement house at al. Kosciuszko. He arrives at the pharmacy. Receiving eye drops. Then he shows up at the grocery store. He gives an empty jar in which the seller packs sauerkraut. Then there’s the actor playing the role of the father Years follows in her daughter’s footsteps, showing her photo to the people she meets. The pharmacy lady recalls a little girl with a ponytail picking up custom-made eye drops.

Ania is also remembered by the seller from the greengrocer’s. In program „997” another trader says he saw her in the company of a 14-15 year old girl. Claims that Ania bought two apples and left with a mysterious friend. Whether this was really the case, however, has never been established. Anyway, immediately after the disappearance of Ania, various, often unverified information appeared. Like the one on the show „997”that approx. 15 Ania could be in Anna Batory fashion salon and ask for a well-known Lodz designer. The girl was a child model.

W „997” a fragment of one of the fashion shows was shown Anna Batory, Where Ania gracefully moves to the catwalks. There are many indications that the information that on the day of the disappearance, on Saturday at approx. 22 seen Not at the station factory accompanied by a brown-haired girl who bought four drinks (citronettes).

Parents Years They searched for the girl all Saturday. Friends joined the search. Before evening, they informed the police about their daughter’s disappearance.

Already on Saturday in Television Journal the announcer gave a message about the disappearance of Ania. He was talking about an 11-year-old girl, 146 cm tall, with long blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, wearing a navy blue jacket with a white zip, a white shirt with slogans, jeans and canvas shoes.

The teacher saw Ania for the last time on Friday, the day before she disappeared. On Monday Mrs. Sophia met her class at homeroom. All the children warmly commented on the disappearance of their friend. For Krzysiek it was a shock. Ania was lost on this route, which he also traveled every day. He talked a lot about it with his best friend from elementary school. They could not understand how their friend could be missing in the middle of Lodz.

– An abyss without a trace in a place where there are so many people … – Krzysiek wondered. “To this day, I can’t get it out of my head. Ania was not a quarrelsome girl, so she could not blame anyone. On the contrary. She was nice to everyone.

Krzysiek remembers that after Ania disappeared, panic prevailed among her parents. They debated whether or not to let their children go to school alone. Łódź there was a rumor that there was a kidnapping gang in town.

Patricia Wojtowicz remembered that it was also said that Not killed and her body buried in Central II. But all these revelations can be treated as urban legends.

Mrs. Sophia she recalled that the children in Anne’s class had gathered and searched the old factory on the corner on their own st. Sienkiewicz i al. Pilsudski, where the Łódź branch is now located “Gazeta Wyborcza”.

Passion Years there was dancing and singing. She appeared on the catwalks as a child model and belonged to the band Krajki. She was a soloist.

Why did the police start searching for the missing girl so late?

To this day, many people wonder why the militia started the search Years only on Sunday, although the missing person report was received on Saturday. Dead already Jan Płócienniczakwho ran the program „997”, then a militia lieutenant colonel and worker Criminal Bureau of the MO Headquarterstried to explain the behavior of the militiamen. He said that nearly 500 disappearances are reported annually in Łódź, and 98 percent of them are reported missing. missing people are found. Participating prosecutor Malgorzata Glapska-Dutkiewiczwho was investigating Ania’s disappearance, believed that in the event of a missing child, the militia should immediately start a search. Then the information from people who met the girl would be more specific.

It is known that human memory is unreliable – said Małgorzata Glapska-Dutkiewicz in the “997” program recorded 30 years ago.

In program Michał Fajbusiewicz she said that an investigation had been initiated in Ania’s case under Article 188 of the Penal Code, which deals with the abduction of a minor. The evidence gathered showed that the girl was being held against her will. It also resulted from the very personality of Ania, whose psyche was well known during the investigation.

Ania’s parents moved heaven and earth to find their daughter. They visited clairvoyants and dowsers. Without result. If Ania had been abducted, even abroad – as some assumed – she would have spoken up even years later. Unless someone changed her mind. The investigation into Ania was discontinued four years after she disappeared. A few years ago, the girl’s mother was reported by the police. It turned out that they wanted to collect DNA material. It is worth that the case of Ania’s disappearance should be dealt with by the so-called X-archives operating at the Provincial Police Headquarters.

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