Drożdż Natalia (Pisula); Father: Pisula Michal

Drożdż-Pisula, Natalia Pisula, Michał, Pisula, Mrs. In December 1942, several days before the liquidation of the Radomsko ghetto (Lodz district), Natalia Drożdż entered the ghetto to take an acquaintance out to the Aryan side. Not finding the intended person in the ghetto, Drożdż took out fifteen-year-old Rozia Paryz (later Elena Moskovits), someone she had never met before and provided her with refuge in her home in the nearby village of Wielgomlyny. Then, at Rozia’s behest, Drożdż returned to the ghetto to extricate fifteen-year-old Golda Fogelman (later Jean Bardach). Afterwards, for no reason other than humanitarianism, Drożdż entered the ghetto for a third time to save Golda’s thirteen-year-old sister Pesa (later Pola Spitzer). Drożdż, who had two children, accommodated Paryz and Golda Fogelman in her own apartment and placed Pesa in the home of her parents, Michał Pisula and his wife, in the village of Herby. With Drożdż’s active assistance, the three Jewish teenagers obtained “Aryan” papers that they used to enlist for labor in Germany, where they were liberated at the end of the war. Afterwards, the Fogelman sisters emigrated to the United States and Paryz to Argentina. All three stayed in close contact with Drożdż and hosted her daughter in their homes. On November 29, 1979, Yad Vashem recognized Natalia Drożdż-Pisula, her father Michał Pisula, and her mother as Righteous Among the Nations.