Maziak Antoni

Maziak, Antoni In early October 1943, Rubin Danshes and Altar Eisen managed to escape from the camp on Janowksa Street in Lwów. After considerable wandering throughout the local countryside, they arrived in the village of Buczały, in the Lwów district, where they knocked at the door of Antoni Maziak, an acquaintance of Eisen from before the war. Motivated by his love of humanity inspired by a deep religious faith and despite his impoverished circumstances, Maziak agreed to hide the two Jewish fugitives in his barn. After entering the hiding place, Eisen and Danshes discovered that two other Lwów Jews, Jakób Limmer and Judith Koch, were already hiding there. The Maziak family treated the four fugitives with kind devotion, and without asking for or receiving anything in return, provided for their every need until their liberation by the Red Army in July 1944. After the war, Eisen immigrated to Israel, Danshes immigrated to the United States, Limmer and Koch immigrated to Germany and Maziak moved to an area within the new Polish borders. On September 29, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Antoni Maziak as Righteous among the nations. File 6266