Gajewski Stefan

Gajewski Stefan Reluctant to move into the ghetto, the four Gutman sisters remained on the Aryan side of Warsaw. Stefan Gajewski, who used to visit Celina Lipczyńska, one of the sisters, who lived with her husband under an assumed identity, guessed that they were Jewish. Later, Celina and her husband were joined by Celina’s mother, her sisters Basia, Irena and Rosa, and a brother-in-law, all of whom had been forced to flee their former accommodations. When life in the small apartment became unbearable, Gajewski, at great personal risk, transferred Irena and her mother to the town of Kazimierz-Dolny, in the Lublin district. He also helped the Jewish refugees, by buying them food from his meager earnings as a laborer, and helped arrange their affairs. In risking his life to save Jews, Gajewski was guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship. In 1943, Gajewski married Basia, and continued to care for her family. When the Lipczyńskis’ house was hit by bombs during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, Gajewski wandered with them among the ruins of Warsaw, never leaving their side, even when the city’s entire population was deported to Pruszków. Gajewski was sent to a concentration camp, and after the liberation in January 1945, immigrated with his wife, Basia, to the United States. After the war, Rosa also immigrated to the United States, while her sisters, Celina and Irena, immigrated to Israel. On November 18, 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Stefan Gajewski as Righteous Among the Nations. File 5470