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FRANCISZEK AND WIKTORIA SOLARZ WITH CHILDREN

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– Victoria! Heat the water and prepare something to eat! Paulinka is here to stay with us. Znamirowska,” Franciszek informed his wife, taken aback by the sight of the arriving acquaintance. At that time the Germans were deporting Jews from Radomsko to Treblinka. She managed to escape and that’s how she reached the Solarz forester’s lodge. That same night, the Poles organized a hiding place in the barn, and there Mrs Solarz carried food every day and took care of Paulina’s needs, and soon the needs of her husband Leon. This help lasted more than two years, until January 1945.

Franciszek and Wiktoria Solarz with children

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