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A card from the calendar - Piotr Purc
Piotr worked in the railway facilities for a living, but he also ran a small farm so that he could feed his family. It was in his field that he met a Jewish woman whom he had known, who bought a cow from him in order to have milk for her young children. This fact didn’t escape the informers. Police turned up at Piotr’s house moments after the transaction.
02.09.2024
A card from the calendar - Julia and Józef Przygodzki
The Rudnik and their daughter were spending nights in a tunnel adapted as a makeshift dwelling, and during the day they were living in harmony at home. And so it went on for a long three years, until the liberation of Vilnius on 13 July 1944.
26.08.2024
A card from the calendar - Fr. Adam Sztark
Stark, a Jesuit, visited hospitals and orphanages, helped the sick and the lonely, and took in Jewish children wandering the streets aimlessly after the ghetto was liquidated in June of 1942. He provided them with new baptism certificates and looked for safe hiding spots for them.
19.08.2024
A card from the calendar - Antonina Popowska and Mijakowski copule
Antonina lived in a house, on the ground floor of Przybyszewskiego Street in Warsaw. Mieczysław, together with his sons Adam and Janusz, dug a hole in the floor in which they prepared a hiding place that could be locked from inside.
12.08.2024
A card from the calendar - The Pomorski family
Without a moment of hesitation, Rywka pulled her sister by the sleeve of her coat and walked out of the ghetto with her without looking back. Their courage, bravado and determination prevented anyone from turning them back. They only stopped in the village of Palikije, where the widower Pomorski and four of his sons gave the Giwercer sisters shelter.
05.08.2024
A card from the calendar - Antoni Plezia
Before the war, Antoni Plezia had been mayor of the village of Okonim for twelve years. Therefore, responsibility for his people was filling his blood. The war time further strengthened bonds with residents, everyone tried to survive and was helpful and kind to each other.
29.07.2024
A card from the calendar - Jan Plewik
Janek’s body was still warm when Jadwiga Plewik drew water from the well and washed blood from her son’s body, lying in front of the entrance to their family home. Moments earlier, three Jews hiding in the farm buildings had been shot dead.
22.07.2024
A card from the calendar - Aleksandra i Ludwik Niedzielscy
When Halina visited her parents in the late summer of 1943, she found Niusia, a 10-year-old Jewish girl-daughter, in their flat. A few days earlier, Germans had raised hell for Jews in the area. Niusia’s parents, wanting to protect their own child, hid her with their neighbours
15.07.2024
A card from the calendar - Janina Nejman
In 1942, Fr. Sztark was murdered in Słonim for helping Jews, and a year later, as a result of a denunciation, Janina Nejman (Irena’s mother) and her older daughter Wanda were deported to Germany to work as labourers for delivering food to the ghetto. Luckily they survived.
08.07.2024
A card from the calendar - Józef Mądry
“We have nothing to lose, we have to run away”, Sara Kuper communicated firmly to her daughter Mira. In October 1942, the two women escaped from the ghetto in Mielec. Before they found their way to Józef Mądry, they arranged for Aryan documents. Józef didn’t know their true origin when Sara and her daughter rented a room from him.
01.07.2024
