Dąbrowska Zofia

Dąbrowska, Zofia In early 1942, Zofia Dąbrowska, a seamstress, and her Jewish husband, Jan, managed to escape from the Warsaw ghetto to the Aryan side of the city where, with the help of Zofia’s brother, a hiding place was found for them in an apartment behind a false partition. In time, the apartment sheltered Jan’s family – including his sister, Estera Zurtelsohn and her three-year-old son, and his niece, Doris – who had also fled from the ghetto. For a while, Jan’s brother and his actor friend, Salomon Kutner, also hid in the apartment. Dąbrowska looked after all of them devotedly, and paid for their upkeep out of her own meager earnings as a seamstress. In August 1944, with the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, Dąbrowska's charges were forced to leave. Only Dąbrowski, his sister and her son, and his niece survived. On November 13, 1984, Yad Vashem recognized Zofia Dąbrowska as Righteous Among the Nations. File 3029