Peska Władysława

Peska, Władysława After the Germans occupied Lwow in the summer of 1941, Chana Weich lived with her family in the same building as Władysława Peska, and they shared good neighborly relations. In mid-1942, Peska moved in order to work as a clerk for a German company in Drohobycz. A short time later, after the Germans began the liquidation of the Jews of Lwow, Weich and her mother appealed to Peska, asking her to hide them in her new place of residence. Peska agreed and invited the two Jewish fugitives to her home. They arrived in Drohobycz using forged documents, and Peska received them warmly, provided for all their needs and found them jobs nearby. Chana started to work for the same company that employed Peska. Rumors began to spread that the two women Peska had taken under her wing were Jewish. Despite the danger from informants, Peska firmly denied that they were Jewish, but in order to keep them from being arrested, moved them to a nearby village, where she found them work in another branch of the same company. Everything Peska did to save Weich and her mother was motivated by pure altruism, for which she never asked for nor received anything in return. After the war, Weich and her mother immigrated to Israel and Peska immigrated to Australia. On May 25, 1971, Yad Vashem recognized Władysława Peska as Righteous Among the Nations.