Pancerz Kazimierz

Pancerz Kazimierz In the second half of 1942, during an Aktion conducted by the Germans in the Borysław ghetto, in Eastern Galicia, young Klara Reichman was caught together with many other Jews. After she managed to escape, Reichman hid in one of the houses in the ghetto, but because none of the members of her family remained there, she turned in her distress to Kazimierz Pancerz, her brother’s Polish friend, who had already helped her hide outside the ghetto before. Pancerz hurried to get Reichman out and after smuggling her out of the ghetto, brought her to the home where he lived with his parents. After the neighbors began to suspect her identity, Pancerz moved Klara from one apartment to another, until he finally prepared a hiding place for her in the home of his aunt, where she remained until the liberation. Motivated by pure altruism and without asking for or receiving anything in return, Pancerz cared for Klara throughout the entire period she remained in hiding, providing for all her needs. After the war when none of Klara Reichman’s relatives returned, she found support with the Pancerz family and in time married Kazimierz Pancerz, her rescuer, and after the war, they moved to an area within the new Polish borders. On February 12, 1991, Yad Vashem recognized Kazimierz Pancerz as Righteous Among the Nations. File 4809