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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
A card frome the calendar - Zuzanna Puławska
Germans took the young mother’s life because, disregarding orders, she gave shelter to little Moshe, who miraculously survived the liquidation of the Kołomyja ghetto.
16.09.2024
A card from the calendar - Nikander Puła
Nikander’s only offense was a human heart. Help shown to two people of Jewish origin was the reason for murdering him. Nikander was a 38-year-old military man, a devoted son and a patriot.
09.09.2024
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
