Henryk Sławik - The Polish Wallenberg

Documentary about Henryk Sławik -Polish journalist and politician. During World War II, he gave assistance to Polish refugees, including Jews, in Hungary. As President of the Citizen's Committee for Help for Polish Refugees, he organized help for interned soldiers and civilian refugees after the defeat in September 1939. Together with Jószef Antall, a representative of the Hungarian government, he provided the refugees false documents, which saved many of their lives. He also saved many Jewish children, for whom he helped to create an orphanage in Vác near Budapest. It is estimated that Henryk Sławik saved nearly 30,000 Polish refugees, including approximately 5,000 Jews. After the Germans took over Hungary in 1944, Henryk Sławik was arrested. During the ensuing investigation, he took the entire responsibility for saving Jews and did not inform on Antall. He was shot, probably in August (on 25th or 26th) in the Mauthausen concentration camp. According to witnesses, before he died he managed to shout: "Poland has not yet perished!”