Frackowiak Maria

Frackowiak, Maria In the summer of 1941, when the Germans occupied the city of Dubno, in the Volhynia district, Maria Frackowiak came to the rescue of her Jewish acquaintances. Already in the early days of the occupation, during the German massacre of Dubno's Jews, Frackowiak hid Jewish refugees, including wounded people who were fleeing from the Germans. From the beginning of the occupation until the city's liberation by the Red Army in the summer of 1944, no fewer than 16 Jewish refugees passed through Frackowiak's apartment. Some stayed for short periods only, until she helped them find another hiding place, while others stayed for weeks or even for months. When the rumor spread that Frackowiak was hiding Jews in her apartment, she arranged for her charges to stay with acquaintances who lived in the surrounding villages, where she continued to supply them with food and clothing until the liberation. The 16 refugees whose lives she saved were four members of the Fuks family, the three members of the Meller family, the Gretz, Fajnblit, and Goldberg couples, and three members of the Aptik family. Later, they testified that Frackowiak was a woman of humanitarian principles who had risked her life to save Jews without expecting anything in return. After the war, the survivors immigrated to Israel, while Maria Frackowiak moved to Wroclaw, within the new Polish borders. On January 9, 1979, Yad Vashem recognized Maria Frackowiak, as Righteous Among the Nations. File 1326