Buza Tadeusz

File 2145c Buza, Tadeusz After his return from the German captivity (he was imprisoned in the Gross-Rosen and in the Bergen-Belsen camps) in the end of 1939 (December). Buza Tadeusz worked as a (by his profession he was a bus driver), tram conductor on the Warsaw tramcar system. He continued in this position under the German occupation (while, joining the rows of the Polish underground movement- “Home Army”; pl. (AK)- “Armia Krajowa”), and smuggled food into the ghetto while passing through by a tram. In 1941 shortly before the eruption of the Nazi-Soviet war, Tadeusz was sent to work as a bus driver to the eastern territories of Poland (which had been taken over from the Russians during “Operation Barbarossa”). During his trips, he frequently brought letters and parcels from Jews in the Warsaw ghetto to their relatives, who lived at that time in the cities of: Lwów, Radziwiłłów, Brody and Zdołbunów. After the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, Tadeusz helped a number of Jews to escape through the sewers to the Aryan side of the city. He also saved a Jew by the name of Schachter (Schächter) Leon [who used forged identity name of: Łopuszański Władysław], a resident of Stanisławów, who succeeded in escaping from Stanisławów ghetto to Lwów ghetto and from there to Warsaw; by using forged identity documents. In Warsaw turned to Tadeusz, who sheltered him temporarily in his apartment (a period of month) until he had obtained an “Aryan” Kennkarte for him. After a month or so, the neighbors began to become suspicious of Schachter’s true identity; thus, Tadeusz found for him a shelter place at acquaintance’s apartment (in a distant neighborhood), while continuing to assist him till the end of the war. As a member of a revolutionary movement, Tadeusz requested nothing in return for his help. On the 22nd of October 1981, Yad Vashem recognized Tadeusz Buza, as a Righteous Among the Nations.