It was Saturday, May 13, 1922, the day my grandmother Genowefa Sienkiewicz was born. Her mother, Weronika, died right after my grandmother took her first breath.My great-grandmother Weronika Ciolek was an aristocrat. An aristocrat who loathed the aristocracy. Which is to say she was riding horses when only men did, and she didn't want to marry her cousin. So she married a farmer named Mateusz Sienkiewicz instead.They wanted to live life their way, and to do so they had to leave Poland.