Jackow Stanisław

Jackowski (Jackow), Stanisław Some years before the German occupation, Stanisław Jackowski (later Jackow) became well-known for his friendship to the Jews of Stanisławow, his native city, in Eastern Galicia. This friendship found concrete expression in 1942, when the Germans began liquidating the local ghetto, and Jackowski hid Jewish fugitives in his farmyard. Despite his straitened circumstances and the hostile environment in which he lived, Jackowski helped no less than 31 refugees, without expecting anything in return. He provided his Jewish charges with hand grenades and four guns with which to defend themselves in case they were discovered. In saving his Jewish friends, Jackowski was guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship. The refugees who hid on his farm were liberated in July 1944 and, after the war, immigrated to Israel and the United States, where they were later followed by Jackowski. In the early 1960s, the World Association of Stanisławow Jews presented him with a gift as a token of their esteem and gratitude. On January 24, 1967, Yad Vashem recognized Stanisław Jackow (Jackowski) as Righteous Among the Nations.