Paszkiewicz Rozalia

Paszkiewicz, Rozalia Paszkiewicz, Władysław Before the war, Yitzhak Nussenblat taught the sons of Rozalia Paszkiewicz in the local high school in the city of Stryj, in the Stanisławow district, in Eastern Galicia. After Paszkiewicz’s husband was recruited into the army, Paszkiewicz found herself in dire straits and Nussenblat helped her sons in school and provided her with financial assistance. In the summer of 1941, after the Germans occupied the city and Nussenblat and his family were imprisoned in the ghetto, Paszkiewicz came to their assistance and smuggled food into the ghetto for them. On the eve of the liquidation of the ghetto, in June 1943, Nussenblat, his sister Balka Sztolc, her daughter Heda and their cousin Pinchas Nussenblat came to the home of Paszkiewicz, who lived with her two sons Jan and Władysław in a one-room apartment with a tiny kitchen. In time, they were joined by three members of the Tigerman family. Paszkiewicz received them all warmly and ten people lived in the tiny apartment. After the situation in the apartment became unbearable, the eldest son Jan decided to leave. Rozalia Paszkiewicz and her younger son Władysław joined their fate to that of the people they had taken under their wing, and disregarding the danger to their own lives, continued to help and take care of the fugitives’ needs. Paszkiewicz and her son lived on Władysław’s meager income, and because she was unable to provide for the seven fugitives living in her apartment on her own, Paszkiewicz bartered items of value the fugitives had deposited with acquaintances in the area in order to purchase food and provisions for them. Under the difficult conditions and constant terror, the seven Jews hid in the apartment of the Rozalia and Władysław Paszkiewicz, and she, motivated solely by her humane principles, hid them for 14 months until the liberation. After the war, the survivors immigrated to Israel and maintained contact with the Paszkiewicz family, who moved to thearea within the new Polish borders, and for many years helped them out financially. On May 5, 1964, Yad Vashem recognized Rozalia Paszkiewicz as Righteous Among the Nations. On May 5, 1987, Yad Vashem recognized her son Władysław Paszkiewicz as Righteous Among the Nations.