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A card from the calendar - Genowefa and Jan Szmuc
The couple Genowefa and Jan Szmuc lived in the village of Wysoka near Łańcut. In July 1941, Jan went into the field to dig potatoes and found a hiding, frightened Jewish woman there. The Szmucs took care of the woman, hid her in a camouflaged dugout near the river during the summertime, and in the attic in the wintertime.
20.11.2023
Franciszek and Wiktoria Solarz with children
- 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.
13.11.2023
A card from the calendar - Antoni and Marianna Słowiński
Józef Jakubowicz and Antoni Słowiński were friends from an early age, and the war only affirmed their friendship. When the campaign against Jews began, Antoni found Józef a job, and some time later he and his wife offered him to live with them.
06.11.2023
A card from the calendar - Henryk and Irena Ryszewski with daughters Zofia and Wanda
Before the war, in parliamentary and press circles, Henryk was a known anti-Semite. No one would have guessed that from 1942 until the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising and the burning down of his house, he hid thirteen Jews with him.
30.10.2023
Antonina and Walenty Rejczak
To Walenty and Antonina Rejczak, the brothers Bronek and Janek Cyngiser owe their lives. In the autumn of 1942, the boys and their father escaped from the Szydłowiec ghetto.
23.10.2023
A card from the calendar - Gertruda Pustelnik
- This is my family. Husbands away at the front, and they have no way to support themselves. They will be useful to me here on the farm, and it will be easier for them too," she introduced the two women who were walking home with her to the Germans roaming around the yard.
16.10.2023
A card from the calendar - Zdzisław and Jadwiga Przybylski with daughter Jadwiga
The caretaker of the tenement house at 6 Pańska Street began battering on the walls. The residents realized in a flash that the Gestapo was approaching. At the same moment, a stranger knocked on the Przybylskis' door.
09.10.2023
A card form the calendar - Helena Płusa
Helena crossed herself. On the threshold of her house, where German officers were just now stationed, stood her childhood friend Mindla Binsztok. She looked tragic.
02.10.2023
A card from the calendar - Jadwiga Piotrowska
What mattered to Jadwiga was people. Everyone. In his face - often tormented, beaten, emaciated, terrified - she saw a reflection of God. As an employee of the social department, she carried out her duties in the Warsaw Ghetto.
25.09.2023
A card from the calendar - Stefania Pietrow
Neither Stefania nor her brother Aleksander ever succumbed to the atmosphere of intimidation and blackmail. During the occupation, their apartment in Warsaw stood open to conspirators and fugitives of various nationalities, including Jews.
18.09.2023
