Stanisław Bochniak was born on 01.01.1914 in Częstcice (now a district in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski). Son of Piotr and Katarzyna. During the Second World War, he lived in the village of Mychów (Świętokrzyskie voivodeship). He sheltered a Jewish family from Łódź and organised forged documents.