Glocer Helena (Oszczyk)

Glocer Helena Mania Rajzman, born in 1924, used, on occasion, to leave the Warsaw ghetto where she and her parents were interned, to visit her Jewish friends who were living, under assumed identities, on the Aryan side of the city. On one such occasion, Rajzman became acquainted with Helena Glocer, a Polish woman married to a Jew. Rajzman used to visit Glocer occasionally, and Glocer gave her food to take back to the ghetto. After the large-scale Aktion which took place in the ghetto in the summer of 1942, the Glocers urged Rajzman to escape from the ghetto while there was still time. Rajzman heeded their advice, and found work on a farming estate near Wolomin. When her identity was discovered, she fled and, thanks to “Aryan” documents in her possession, was sent as a Pole to work in Germany, where she stayed until the liberation. While in Germany, Glocer corresponded with her, to avert suspicion. In risking her life to save her friend, Helena was guided by humanitarian considerations, which superseded her fear that her husband’s identity would be discovered. After the war, Rajzman left Poland and kept up contact with Glocer, whom she considered as having saved her life. On December 25, 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Helena Glocer as Righteous Among the Nations. File 6943