Dobraczyński Jan

Dobraczyński, Jan During the occupation, Jan Dobraczyński, director of the Warsaw Municipality’s Social Welfare Division, helped Żegota (the Council for Aid to Jews), by supplying forged documents for Jewish children testifying that they were orphaned, destitute, or learning-disabled, to qualify for admission to various Christian institutions. At Dobraczyński’s instructions, his employees made up fictitious reports for the Jewish children, to which he lent his official stamp. Although, in most cases, the staff and directors of the institutions (usually convents) knew that the children were Jewish, they agreed to take them in. Dobraczyński, who considered his work as part of the struggle against the enemy, placed several hundrets Jewish children in various Christian institutions, without ever expecting anything in return. Thanks to the strict precautions he took, none of the children were discovered. On September 12, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Jan Dobraczyński as Righteous Among the Nations. File 5618