A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ZOFIA AND JAN TABAK
“We won’t go any further, we have no strength left. We’d rather die here, on your threshold” – thus spoke the two Jews that came to the Tabaks’ house, psychologically shattered, starving, and haggard, their eyes a picture of helplessness. Herman and Dawid Tyrk had been wandering the surrounding area for days, looking for some shelter. The village of Ustrobna, surrounded by forest, where the Tabaks lived, became Herman and Dawid’s hideout for the next year. Jan prepared a hiding place for the two men over the stables. At night, the Tabaks would bring them food, take their waste, and tend to their hygiene. The Jews left their hideout in July 1944, after fire broke out in the farmstead of Jan and Zofia’s. Their further fate remains unknown.
