A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - FEDORCIO STANISŁAWA I KS. ANDRZEJ OSIKOWICZ
Betta Brawer, escaping from the Borysław ghetto, was holding in her arms her son Dani, born just two days earlier. It was August 1942, Betta was in the postpartum period, powerless, but her maternal instinct didn’t let her give up. She was walking ahead, cuddling her newborn baby in her arms. Little Dani’s life would have disappeared without a trace if Stanisława Fedorcio and Father Andrzej Osikowicz hadn’t appeared on his mother’s path. Stanisława took care of the baby as if it were her own child for almost three years, and Father Osikowicz baptised Dani, giving him a certificate of his belonging to the Catholic Church. Under Mrs Stanisława’s tender care, Dani lived to see liberation. Both Mrs Fedorcio and Father Osikowicz received the Medal of the Righteous Among the Nations from the Yad Vashem Institute for their help to the Brawer family.
