Federowska Bronisława

Sokół, Władysław Sokół, Władysława Kubalski, Jan Kubalska, Anna Franaszek, nee Kubalska, Janina Fedorowska, Bronisława In May 1943, two days after the ghetto in Busk (Tarnopol district, Eastern Galicia) was liquidated, Wladyslaw Sokol of nearby Angelówka encountered Dora Stolzenberg and her two sons, Aron and Maxs, wandering in the fields in search of a place to hide. In counsel with his wife Władysława, and her parents Anna and Jan Kubalski, who had a farm next door, Sokół escorted the three Jewish refugees to the yard that they shared, where he concealed them in the hayloft. Concurrently, another group of Jews from Busk found shelter on the farm of the widow Bronisława Federowska. After a group of Ukrainian nationalists discovered the fugitives’ hideout and massacred some of its occupants, Federowska was arrested and prosecuted but managed to escape. Five Jews who survived the massacre—Jakub and Tauba Goldberg, Clara Hecht (Jakub Goldberg’s sister) and her son Thomas, and Goldberg’s brother Naftali—reached the Sokółs’ and Kubalskis’ farms and asked for refuge. The Sokółs and the Kubalskis prepared a hideout for the refugees on their farm and, with the assistance of Janina, the Kubalskis’ daughter, gave them sympathetic and devoted care. In early 1944, the Wehrmacht requisitioned the Sokółs’ farm and German soldiers led their horses toward the hayloft. In a dangerous operation, the eight Jews in hiding there were delivered to the nearby forest, and until the yard was evacuated, their rescuers continued faithfully to meet their needs. Because of continual troop movements in the area, the Jews were taken again to the forest, but this time the Germans discovered their hideout and arrested Dora Stolzenberg and one of her sons. The six surviving refugees remained in the forest and the Sokółs continued to provide food and clothing. As the Russian front approached in the winter of 1943/1944, the Sokółs and the Kubalskis decided to flee west. Before they left,they removed their Jewish wards to the farm of a Ukrainian neighbor, who aided them until the liberation. In their rescue actions, the Sokółs and the Kubalskis were prompted by purely humanitarian motives and accepted no remuneration for anything they did. On November 3, 1986, Yad Vashem recognized Władysław Sokół, his wife Władysława, Bronisława Federowska, Jan Kubalski, his wife Anna Kubalska, and their daughter Janina Franaszek, nee Kubalska as Righteous Among the Nations. File 3461