Olszyna Aniela

File 4053 Olszyna, Aniela In the summer of 1942, Lipa Krebs decided to escape from the Przemysł ghetto, in the Rzeszów district, and to steal over to the Aryan side of the city under an assumed identity. While he was searching for a place to hide his young son Zenon, past acquaintance Aniela Olszyna came to his assistance. Without asking for or receiving anything in return, she agreed to hide the Jewish boy in her home. When the war broke out, Olszyna’s husband had been taken into the army, and to support herself in her difficult financial circumstances, she did housework and occasional jobs. After the neighbors became suspicious, Olszyna was forced to hide together with the little boy in the home of relatives, and in this way safeguarded him for two years, taking care of all his needs. Olszyna’s efforts to save Zenon Krebs were motivated by pure altruism, and after the liberation, she returned the boy safe and sound to his father, who remained in Poland. On December 26, 1988, Yad Vashem recognized Aniela Olszyna as Righteous Among the Nations.