Dolińska Anna (Wiślańska)

Dolińska Anna On the eve of the German occupation, Franciszka-Wanda Sawicka (née Berggrüen) lived with her husband, a doctor, in Wilno. After the occupation, before the establishment of the ghetto, the Sawickis decided to go into hiding. Polish acquaintances of theirs referred them to the priest, Michał Sopoćko, who agreed to help them. In September 1941, he found a separate shelter for each of them with friends of his. Franciszka-Wanda Sawicka was sent to Anna Dolińska, who gave her a warm welcome, although she was a stranger, and saw to all her needs, without expecting anything in return. After Dolińska, an activist in the Polish underground, obtained “Aryan” papers for Sawicka and her husband, and supplied them with clothes and other useful items, the Sawickis left Vilna for the village of Onżadowo near Oszmiana, where they lived as Polish refugees until the area was liberated by the Red Army in July 1944. While living in Onżadowo, the Sawickis occasionally came to Wilno to visit Dolińska, whom they considered their guardian angel. After the war, Dolińska was arrested by the NKVD for belonging to the AK, and exiled to Siberia for eight years. After her release, she moved to an area within the new Polish borders, where she renewed contact with the Sawickis, who had moved to Warsaw. On February 11, 1999, Yad Vashem recognized Anna Dolińska as Righteous Among the Nations. File 8361