Dąbrowski Władysław

Dąbrowski, Władysław After the Germans captured the city of Zolkiew, in the Lwow district, a group of Jews were employed as forced laborers on a German plant in the nearby forests of Mosty Wielkie. In the autumn of 1943, shortly before the liquidation of the labor camp where the Jews lived, a group of Jews managed to escape to the surrounding forests. Władysław Da Dąbrowski, a Pole who worked as a mechanic in the factory and lived in the village of Zawonie, in the Sokal district, kept up contact with the Jews hiding in the forest. Out of the goodness of his heart, and without asking for anything in return, he offered to help the five members of the Ehrenwert family. After finding a hiding place for three of them with relatives in the countryside, he hid the other two in the stable in his yard. In March 1944, a unit of the Ukrainian SS-Galizien surrounded the village and set fire to it. Most of the inhabitants perished on the spot, while others were deported to concentration camps. Among the Jews who hid in the village and survived were Michael Ehrenwert and his sister Sylvia. Dąbrowski also managed to escape the massacre. After the war, Ehrenwert and his sister left Poland and kept up a correspondence with Dąbrowski. On October 4, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Władysław Dąbrowski as Righteous Among the Nations. File 6165