Małkiewicz Aniela

Małkiewicz, Aniela In the summer of 1941, Olga Joszpa and her parents were deported from their town of Husiatyn, in the Tarnopol district. After much suffering and hardship, the three Jewish fugitives arrived in the ghetto of Kopyczyńce, from which they fled just before its liquidation in early 1943. While they were still in the ghetto, Aniela Małkiewicz approached the Joszpa family, for whom she had done housework from the year 1928, and without asking for any payment, expressed her willingness to help them in any way she could. When they left the ghetto, the Jospa family came to Małkiewicz, who at first hid them in the attic of the local church. She subsequently moved them to a number of other hiding places in the surrounding villages. Despite the danger posed to her life, Małkiewicz continued to care for the three Jewish refugees until the liberation of the area by the Red Army in the summer of 1944, and everything she did for them was motivated by her loyalty to her employers, which withstood the test of the times. After the war, the members of the Joszpa family immigrated to Israel, and in 1963, they hosted Małkiewicz, who after the war had moved to territory within the new borders of Poland, in their home. On November 27, 1963, Yad Vashem recognized Aniela Małkiewicz as Righteous Among the Nations.