Dryńska Anna (Sumowska)

File 2955 Dryńska (née: Sumkowska) Anna Among the Jews Anna Dryńska looked after in her home in Milanówek, near Warsaw, was Professor Bronisław Buras, who stayed with her from the spring of 1943 until the area was liberated by the Red Army in January 1945 (as well as- Tenenbaum Zuzanna, later- Hartman). Dryńska’s apartment also served as a provisional shelter for Professor Leon-Benedykt Bornstein and his wife, Jadwiga, Teofila Freudenreich; Ludwik Brisker (known later as- Kazimierz Dąbrowski), Dr. Maurycy Bornstein, the Posławskis couple (Teresa Posławska) and their son Roman Posławski, and an author’s wife by the family name of Tazbir. In helping the refugees, Dryńska was guided by humanitarian motives which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship. Some of the refugees saved by Dryńska left Poland after the war, and kept up contact with her. On June 28, 1984, Yad Vashem recognized Anna Dyrńska as a Righteous Among the Nations.