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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
A card from the calendar - Armela Piecuch
At the beginning of the chain of rescuing 6-year-old Janina Grünbaum was Henryk Zięba. It was he who rescued her from a liquidated ghetto in Sosnowiec. He was friends with her father - executed in Auschwitz. But he could not hide the girl.
11.09.2023
Ocalić od zapomnienia – Kazimierz Benedyk
Jak w każdy wtorek, także i dziś, zapraszamy do wysłuchania relacji o ratowaniu Żydów w czasie
II wojny światowej. Pan Kazimierz Benedyk wraz z rodziną mieszkał w miejscowości Skałat (dzisiejsza Ukraina). Regularnie nosił do pobliskiego lasu żywność dla ukrywających się tam trzech rodzin żydowskich.05.09.2023
A card from the calendar - Zofia Pasternak-Zadorożna
Augusta Reitman lived for almost a year... in a clothing niche. - Well, it's cramped in here, just one compartment, but perhaps no one will ever think that anyone is hiding here," said Zofia, taking in a Jewish woman...
04.09.2023
