A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - PIOTR DOMAŃSKI I SYNOWIE, FRANCISZEK I ANTONI
“We are not going to leave Rzążew. Dad, we won’t leave you alone, it’s our joint decision” – this is how his two sons, Franciszek and Antoni, who were managing their father’s land, answered him. Piotr felt danger, he knew what secret three of them were hiding, so he was constantly asking his sons to leave the village, at least for a while. When the Germans began the liquidation of several ghettos in the area at the same time in August 1942, including those in Łosice and Mordy, many Jews fled in search of hiding places. And so, several of them found themselves at the Domański’s. Together with the fugitives, the Domański built an underground shelter in the barn, into which they were delivering food on a daily basis. When the area was safe, Jews were helping in the field. Eventually, someone noticed them and reported to Gestapo. On 8 April 1943, Piotr, Franciszek and Antoni were brutally dragged out of their house, tortured and taken to a nearby forest, where they were murdered.
