Nawrateń Władysław

Nawrateń, Władysław Malkiewicz, Władysław Malkiewicz, Hanna In September 1942, in the midst of an Aktion in the town of Busk (Eastern Galicia), Pnina Nemet escaped from the detention point whence Jews were being transported to a death camp. She went to the home of Władysław Nawrateń, an acquaintance from her hometown, who concealed her for three weeks without his wife’s knowledge. When the situation became dangerous, Nawrateń placed the Jewish refugee in hiding with Władysław and Hanna Malkiewicz and their five children. When Nemet reached the Malkiewiczes’ house, she discovered that Rivka Kochalska and a woman named Silvia had already found shelter there. Subsequently, Władysław Malkiewicz also took in Shoshana Hermelin after bringing her from the forest to which she had fled during one of the Aktionen. The Malkiewiczes concealed the four Jewish fugitives in their home for nearly two years, until the area was liberated in the summer of 1944. During that time, the Malkiewiczes, a poor family, shared their meager food and provided devoted care, for humanitarian reasons and for no material reward. After the war, the four survivors moved to Israel. On September 18, 1980, Yad Vashem recognized Władysław Nawrateń, Władysław Malkiewicz, and Hanna Malkiewicz as Righteous Among the Nations.