Bogdanowicz Anna

Bogdanowicz Anna Ney Julian Before the war, Anna Bogdanowicz lived in the city of Kielce with her husband and two children. After the outbreak of war, the family moved in with Anna’s parents, who lived in Jaslo, in the Krakow district. After the establishment of the Jaslo ghetto, Sara Diller, a Jewish teacher, and former friend of Anna’s, was incarcerated in it together with all the local Jews. Upon learning of her friend’s plight, Bogdanowicz decided to help her to the best of her ability, despite the risk. She enlisted the help of her friend Julian Ney, a young doctor, who had a permit from the German authorities to remain in his apartment in the ghetto area, where he was able to supply Diller and her sick mother with food. In risking his life to save Diller and her mother, Ney was guided by a sincere friendship that was its own reward. In August 1942, when Ney discovered that the ghetto was about to be liquidated, he helped Diller escape. Bogdanowicz accompanied Diller, who was equipped with Aryan documents, to Kielce, where she arranged for her to work as a domestic help and nursemaid for a forester’s family. After neighbors informed on her, Bogdanowicz was arrested and sent to Auschwitz, where she died of typhus. Ney was also arrested together with her, and tortured to death by the Gestapo. When Diller discovered that Bogdanowicz and Ney had been arrested, she fled to Warsaw, and registered for work in Austria, where she stayed until the liberation. Diller later immigrated to Israel, where, after several years, she established contact with Bogdanowicz’s children. A friendship developed between them which lasted for many years, and which entailed mutual visits. On September 19, 1983, Yad Vashem recognized Anna Bogdanowicz and Julian Ney as Righteous Among the Nations.