A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ZYGMUNT PRZYBYŁOWSKI (BEREZIUK)
On 21 June 1941 the Germans bombed Lviv. They also started Operation Zero Jews. They were denied the opportunity to earn a living, to enter cultural institutions and to use transport. Zygmunt Bereziuk, a singer at the Lwów opera, decided to save those whose dignity had been taken away. He dismissed himself from his job, where segregation had just been implemented. The president of the restaurant co-operative, seeing the Polish man’s efficiency, put him in charge of a restaurant in the busiest part of Lviv. Zygmunt employed Jewish women he knew there and provided food for the children. He also arranged false birth certificates and other necessary documents. For this day-to-day help, he found himself on the wanted list of the Kripo. He had to change his name and appearance. After the war he married one of the survivors.
