Baran Józefa

Baran Józefa Falitarczyk Adela Falitarczyk Ludwig In 1942, Dawid and Klara Schwarz and three of their children were murdered by the Germans in Buczacz, in Eastern Galicia. The sole survivor of the family, 14-year-old Izabella, was taken in by Józefa Baran, who had witnessed the slaughter. Józefa gave Izabella the name and documents of her deceased daughter, and Izabella remained with her for some three months. The Ukrainian police became suspicious of the girl’s identity, however, and Józefa asked her sister, Adela Falitarczyk, to shelter Izabella instead. Adela, who had a three-year-old daughter, brought Izabella over to the farm that she and her husband, Ludwig, owned in the village of Zapole, in the Nowogródek district. Six members of the Iser family were already hiding there, and the seven fugitives remained with the Falitarczyks for over two years, until their liberation in the summer of 1944. On August 11, 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Józefa Baran and Adela and Ludwig Falitarczyk as Righteous Among the Nations. File 5394