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A card from the calendar - Maria and Franciszek with children
Moshe, the senior and head of a family of 12, turned for help to the Jarosz family, who were devout Catholics, guided by precepts of faith and humanitarianism. They put love for a fellow man above their own safety, which is why they were hiding, helping and supporting a Jewish family for two years.
22.04.2024A card from the calendar - Helena Grochowska (née Poremba)
The occupiers were leading Jews from a nearby ghetto in Sarny to execution. Some of the people detained there managed to escape the previous night. As it later turned out, one of the escapees and her child found shelter in Helenka’s house.
15.04.2024A card from the calendar - Piotr i Józef Gołąb
During the war, the Gołąb brothers were helping Jews, each in his own way. Piotr was selling bread to Jews, while Józef was hiding them in farm buildings.
08.04.2024A card from the calendar - The Gorzelak
In a short time, the whole family of four found themselves in a brick shelter. And they were not alone there. Apart from them, a Jewish family who had escaped from a nearby factory with forced labourers also used the underground hiding place.
01.04.2024A card from the calendar - Stanisław and Jerzy Gnoińscy
In autumn 1939, Max Seifert escaped from Drohobycz to Truskawiec, where he found work with Jerzy Gnoiński. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, the Gnoiński moved to Lviv and took Seifert with them.
25.03.2024A card from the calendar - Serafin Gilert
The circumstances of Gilert Serafin’s arrest and death are unclear. One thing is certain. Whenever he could, he was delivering flour for bread for Jews to the Ciechanów ghetto. Hunger, misery and suffering of the people locked behind the ghetto wall didn’t let Serafin quietly pass by.
18.03.2024A card from the calendar - Fedorcio Stanisława i ks. Andrzej Osikowicz
Betta Brawer, escaping from the Borysław ghetto, was holding in her arms her son Dani, born just two days earlier. It was August 1942, Betta was in the postpartum period, powerless, but her maternal instinct didn’t let her give up.
11.03.2024A card from the calendar - Maria i Stanisław Drożdżowscy
“We have seven children of our own, how are we going to manage to feed four more?”, Maria asked her husband Stanisław with concern. They had been moving constantly for some time. Luszowice, the village where they had their farm, was only a few kilometres away from Radogoszcz, which was in constant turmoil. It was during another attempt to return to their own land that the Drożdżowski family met a Jewish couple with two children on their way.
04.03.2024A card from the calendar - Piotr Domański i synowie, Franciszek i Antoni
“We are not going to leave Rzążew. Dad, we won’t leave you alone, it’s our joint decision” – this is how his two sons, Franciszek and Antoni, who were managing their father’s land, answered him. Piotr felt danger, he knew what secret three of them were hiding, so he was constantly asking his sons to leave the village, at least for a while.
26.02.2024A card from the calendar - Maria Dobrucka
Maria had the best role models in her family. Maria’s parents, Aniela and Andrzej Dobrudzki, were known for helping those in need. Their home in Czortków was often an asylum for Jews in hiding. In 1942, just after the liquidation of the ghetto in Czortków, their door were practically never closing. Among those who turned up at the Dobrudzki’s house were: lawyer Margules, Mrs Gelber with her daughter, accountant Szor, merchant Perelmuter and others.
19.02.2024