A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - KATARZYNA I JAN SIEWIERSCY
In 1942, a ghetto was established in Sędziszów, and its liquidation in the autumn of the same year ended several hundred years of Jewish existence in Sędziszów. The elderly were being annihilated successively, women and children were taken to extermination camps, the young were put to work. Those who didn’t get caught, escaped to nearby forests and acquainted Poles, who were providing them with help whenever possible. The Siewierski family was hiding four people for almost sixteen months in a bunker under the barn, dug specially for the purpose of hiding the Liebel brothers: Józek and Monk, as well as Ignacy Winkler and Józef Krajnik. Several months of risking their lives brought freedom to all four. After the war, the Liebel and Winkler brothers left for Brazil, while Krajnik settled in Germany.
