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A card from the calendar - Anna Wołczuk
Anna Wołczuk, a resident of the village of Szypowce in Tarnów province, was hiding a Jewish family, a married couple with two children, in her home. It isn’t known whether helping Jews was a direct cause of Anna’s death or it was a Ukrainian drive to murder all Poles of the land. Anna wasn’t the only victim.
25.11.2024
A card from the calendar - Fr. Antoni Udalski
Fr. Antoni Udalski ministered in the Wołożyn parish throughout the interwar period. He didn’t abandon his congregation when the World War II broke out. He was helping and supporting others as well as granting false certificates to Jews giving them evidence of the Christian religion.
18.11.2024
A card from the calendar - Apolonia Trębicka and Marian Trębicki
Trębice Górne, where Apolonia and Marian lived, was surrounded by dense forests. They knew them inside out, having played there as children, and now they used this knowledge of area to save a man. Wasyl, a Jew from their village had been hiding there for a long time. They provided him with food several times a week..
11.11.2024
A card from the calendar - Jan Tomaszewski
Jan was a tailor, a respected man in the village, he was talented for manual works: both small tailoring and large construction jobs. Constructing a hiding place under the barn floor wasn’t a problem for him, and taking in people in need was for Jan and his family a duty to another human being.
04.11.2024
A card from the calendar - Andrzej Tabaczyński
Jędrek was still attending primary school when the World War II broke out. His teacher was Maria Rosenblat, a Jewish woman, adored by her pupils. When his beloved teacher was forced to move behind the walls of a newly establishment Warsaw ghetto, he decided to show maturity and courage; this was what he had been taught and this was what he wanted to be..
28.10.2024
A card from the calendar - Anna Sokołowska
Anna was a secondary school teacher, social and underground activist, holding a nickname “granny”. This was also her disposition: she was kind, affectionate and wise. During the World War II, her house at 10 Szujskiego Street in Nowy Sącz was a contact point for couriers travelling to Hungary via Slovakia, a place where underground press was stored, and temporarily also a premise of a radio station. Involved in aiding Jews, she was delivering medicines and food to the ghetto, and for some time she was hiding two young Jewish women in her house. Arrested for her activities on 17 October 1943, after interrogation at the Gestapo post, she was imprisoned in Montelupich Prison in Cracow. In June 1944, she was deported to the Ravensbruck camp and survived there only six months. In January 1945, she got infected with dysentery and died.
21.10.2024
A card from the calendar - Franciszek Sarzyński
Almost every day, Franciszek would bring Jews hiding in the factory some food previously cooked by his wife. When it was dark, it happened that he would smuggle Jewish children from the factory to his house, where they could eat well, wash themselves and rest.
14.10.2024
A card from the calendar - Sisters Bień, Jadwiga and Helena
Sisterly love and sisterly support. They all understood each other without words. One needed help, the other offered it. The Nekrycz sisters survived the war and emigrated to Israel.
07.10.2024
A card from the calendar - Katarzyna i Jan Siewierscy
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.
30.09.2024
A card from the calendar - Tadeusz Rewilak
In the summer of 1942, Nachum, Jakub and Cwi Weinberger were deported from Rymanów to the Płaszów concentration camp. They were experienced carpenters and were therefore employed in a German factory outside the camp. This is how they met a carpentry shop owner Tadeusz Rewilak, with whom they started friendship.
23.09.2024
