LITTLE SEWERYN
With a witness of the past, Mrs. Stanisława Kołodyńska, Anna Pociepna’s niece, we met to listen to a story of the help given by the Pociepny couple to a boy of Jewish descent.
During World War II, Mrs. Stanisława lived in Wierzchowisko, a town near Częstochowa. Her relatives Anna and Stanisław Pociepny were a childless couple, they decided to accept a Jewish child, who was brought to them by a family of Jewish origin. The parents of this child were aware that they would not survive the war, so they wanted at least their son Seweryn to have a chance to survive it. Mrs. Stanisława often went with her mother to the family of the Pociepny and played with little Seweryn.
Seweryn survived the war and emigrated to Israel only after the death of his guardians.
