Dobrowolski Mieczyslaw

Dobrowolski, Mieczysław Before the war, Mieczysław Dobrowolski, an inhabitant of Warsaw, worked as a correspondent for Robotnik, the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) organ. During the German occupation, Dobrowolski helped save the lives of many Jews interned in the Warsaw ghetto. In 1942, Dobrowolski helped Janina Sztern, a former fellow student of his, escape from the ghetto and put her up in his home until August 1944. Then she was sent to a labor camp, under an assumed identity, where she survived the war. Dobrowolski also sheltered Miriam Caspari, Teofila Wichowa, among many others, in his apartment, looked after them, and provided them with the necessary forged documents. Dobrowolski had contacts with activists of the Jewish Socialist Party (the Bund), who lived on the Aryan side of the city, and with Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews), through which he funneled money to the Jewish fugitives. The Jews whom Dobrowolski saved later testified that he was a person of extraordinary humanitarian values, who was guided only by altruistic considerations. On March 5, 1989, Yad Vashem recognized Mieczysław Dobrowolski as Righteous Among the Nations.