Gnoiński Jerzy

Gnoiński, Jerzy In the autumn of 1939, after the Red Army’s entry into eastern Poland, Max Seifert moved from the town of Drohobycz to Truskawiec, in the Lwów district, where he found work in a garage run by Jerzy Gnoiński. When, in 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Seifert moved to Lwów. Gnoiński, who by a lucky coincidence had also moved to Lwów, hid Seifert in his apartment, provided him with forged documents stating that he was Ukrainian, and employed him in his new factory. After about one-and-a-half years, Seifert was forced to leave when the Gestapo began raiding private apartments in search of Jews. Seifert found work with a German company in Finland, and later moved to Germany where he remained under an assumed identity until he was liberated in 1945. In helping Seifert, Gnoiński was guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety, and never expected anything in return. On October 13, 1988, Yad Vashem recognized Jerzy Gnoiński as Righteous Among the Nations. File 3946