Kamiński Stefan

Kamiński, Stefan After her mother's death in 1942, 11-year-old Felicja Seifert was smuggled out of the ghetto to the Aryan side of Kraków. Felicja's father, who lived under an assumed identity outside the Kraków ghetto, arranged this daring operation. Felicja was sent to a farm in the village of Wawrzeńczyce in the county of Miechów, near Kraków, where, together with another Jewish couple, she stayed for about a year. One day, the Germans raided the farm and arrested the farm owners and the Jewish couple. Felicja managed to escape and ran to the private tutor the farm owners had hired for her, who sent her to Aleksandra Mianowska * in Kraków, a Żegota activist. Mianowska arranged for Stefan Kamiński, un underground activist and member of Żegota, to take Felicja to an institution run by nuns near Warsaw for children whose parents were working in Germany. Kamiński undertook this mission with alacrity, despite the tremendous risk. When Felicja took ill and had to go into the hospital, Kamiński stayed by her side, watched over her, and kept her spirits up. After she recovered, Felicja went to children's institution under an assumed identity and stayed there until the area was liberated. After the war, she immigrated to Israel. On May 26, 1997, Yad Vashem recognized Stefan Kamiński as Righteous Among the Nations. File 7618