Daszkiewicz Anna

Daszkiewicz, Anna In the autumn of 1942, the Gajers, their daughter, Frania, their son, Jakub, and Gajer’s sister, fled from the Rowne ghetto, in the Volhynia district. Before the war, Gajer had been friendly with Anna Daszkiewicz, and while the Gajers took temporary shelter in the nearby forest, Gajer sent her word of his plight and asked her to help. Despite the danger, Daszkiewicz supplied the five Jewish refugees with food in their hiding place in the forest. When winter came, Daszkiewicz arranged a hiding place for them in a stable in her farmyard, and continued seeing to all their needs, and supplying them with food and clothes. In March 1943, the local police, alerted to the fact that Jews were hiding on her farm, raided Daszkiewicz’s home, killing Gajer and his wife. Daszkiewicz managed to escape with the Gajers’ daughter and son, and their aunt. Furious that they had escaped, the policemen murdered three members of Daszkiewicz’s family, who happened to be on the farm during the raid. Meanwhile, the three Jewish refugees fled with Daszkiewicz to the forest, where they stayed until the area was liberated in August 1944 by the Red Army. After the war, Frania and Jakub Gajer immigrated with their aunt to Israel, while Daszkiewicz left her farm, and moved to an area within the new borders of Poland. On March 6, 1979, Yad Vashem recognized Anna Daszkiewicz as Righteous Among the Nations.