Nowak Konrad

Nowak, Konrad In 1942, after the Germans had begun to liquidate the Wloszczowa ghetto, in the Kielce district, Rachel Rosenzwieg appealed to her friend Konrad Nowak for help. Risking his life, Nowak moved Rosenzweig and her brother Israel to Czestochowa. The brother entered the local ghetto, where he found work in the Hasag factory. Nowak found Rachel a place to stay with a local Polish family, introducing her as his fiancée. After three months in Czestochowa, the neighbors began to suspect that Rosenzweig might be Jewish, and she decided to leave the city. She telephoned Nowak, who this time arrived with “Aryan” papers for her, and they both left for Warsaw, where Rosenzweig found work as a housemaid. After the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944, Rosenzweig fled to nearby Wlochy, where she remained until the Red Army liberated the area in January 1945. After the war, Rosenzweig (later Kalińska) and her brother immigrated to Israel, and were eternally grateful to Konrad Nowak for saving their lives. On March 25, 1996, Yad Vashem recognized Konrad Nowak as Righteous Among the Nations.