Kobylińska Łucja

Kaliczyńska, Józefa Jekielek-Kluska, Maria Kobylińska, Łucja During the occupation, Józefa Kaliczyńska, Maria Kluska, and Łucja Kobylińska worked as couriers for Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) in Krakow. Their duties included visiting Jews in their hiding places on the Aryan side of the city and in the surrounding towns and villages. Their visits had a dual purpose: to supply the refugees with money and basic requirements, and to show the landlords, who were being paid by Zegota, that the underground was keeping an eye on them. The couriers, who saw their work as an integral part of the war against a common enemy, were constantly risking their lives, and frequently had to improvise ways of saving refugees whose lives were in immediate danger. In 1944, when Stefania Rozenberg, her little daughter Eugenia, Eugenia Nusbaum and Anna Weksler thought that their end was near, the courageous Zegota couriers came to the rescue and saved their lives. On July 7, 1980,Yad Vashem recognized Józefa Kaliczyńska, Łucja Kobylińska and Maria Jekielek (née Kluska) as Righteous Among the Nations.