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A card from the calendar - Ks. Ignacy Życiński
In her will, written in 1976, Sofia mentioned her saviour by name. Father Ignacy Życiński – it was he whom Zisman wrote about – was a parish priest of the parish of Trójca near Zawichost since 1930. He remained so until 1948.
23.12.2024A card from the calendar - Filomena i Jakub Świętoń
Abraham Pariser had been hiding in the forest for a long time, and after dark he would turn up at the Świętoń’s house. There he received warm food, a roof over his head, conversation and safe accommodation.
16.12.2024A card from the calendar - Marianna Świder
“Marianna, thank you but meat is bad for me, pork fat too, thank you, I won’t eat it”, Stasia replied every time Marianna prepared a pork meal. No more words had to be said for Marianna to realise that she had invited a Jewish woman under her roof.
09.12.2024A card from the calendar - Fr. Józef Gorajek
Danuta Winnik, after escaping from the Warsaw ghetto, reached Niezabitów with her son. Despite their Aryan appearance, inhabitants of Niezabitów were whispering about their true nationality, but fear affected everyone at the time. Everyone feared for their lives and the lives of their loved ones. However, Father Gorajek’s position and respect of the residents didn’t allow anyone to betray or denounce him.
02.12.2024A 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.
25.11.2024A 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.
18.11.2024A 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..
11.11.2024A 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.
04.11.2024A 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..
28.10.2024A 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