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A card from the calendar - Bolesław Maciejewski
Regina, Bolesław Maciejewski’s wife, died in the second year of the war. Bolesław was left alone with the children. Dobryszyce, where they lived, was less than 10 kilometres away from Radomsko. As early as in December 1939, Germans established a ghetto there, which Bolesław visited regularly carrying bread for Jews.
27.05.2024
A card from the calendar - Jadwiga Kozłowska-Boarkowska
After liquidation of the Miechów ghetto in 1943, Irena Neuman was looking for refuge on the Aryan side in Cracow. Escaping from the ghetto exhausted her body, already severely strained by the war. Mrs. Jadwiga Kozłowska-Barkowska gave Irena shelter in her own home.
20.05.2024
A card from the calendar - Antoni Kotaś
Antoni lived in Wołyń with his wife and four children. In 1941, nationalist movements made the family move to the village of Równe. Less than a year later, a 15-year-old Estera Finkielgluz.
13.05.2024
A card from the calendar - Karolina and Mikołaj Kmita
After a few days of wandering through forests and fields, Zosia knocked on the door of Elza Kmita, who lived in the village of Boża Darówka. Elza had a tiny hut with no room, but offered to put Zosia up with her sister-in-law Karolina and her husband Mikołaj. Zosia was hiding with the Kmit for almost two years.
06.05.2024
A card from the calendar - Zofia Jaśkiewicz-Gałecka
Zofia didn’t know Mr Adler, but without a single word and regard for danger, she allowed both of them to live with her. They both lived happily until the liberation under Zofia’s tender care.
29.04.2024
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.
22.04.2024
A 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.
15.04.2024
A 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.
08.04.2024
A 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.
01.04.2024
A 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.
25.03.2024
