Korulska Wanda (Makuch)

Makuch-Korulska, Wanda Wanda Makuch-Korulska risked her life by entering the Warsaw ghetto to help Halina Walfisz, her longtime friend. By obtaining Aryan papers for her, Makuch-Korulska was able to help Walfisz escape the ghetto, and she found her a place to live with Chaya Gutkowska, a Jewish refugee, who, through Makuch’s contacts, received help from the Polish underground. With her false credentials, Walfisz began working in a factory making house slippers, but the Gestapo arrested her, and in July 1943, she was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the camp was evacuated and she was liberated near the city of Magdeburg, in 1945, Walfisz returned to Warsaw and remained close friends with Makuch. Makuch regarded her acts of rescue as the national duty of an underground fighter, and she neither asked for nor received any remuneration. On December 14, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Wanda Makuch-Korulska as Righteous Among the Nations. File 6308