Prask Karol

Prask, Karol During the occupation, Karol Prask lived with his family in the village of Konstantynówka, near Kamiónka Strumiłowa, in Eastern Galicia. Between the years 1942-1944, Prask temporarily hid a number of Jews who fled from the ghettos and forced-labor camps in the area, including people he had never met, such as the Lechner family, whom he hid in his home for a month. In January 1943, Shmuel Bojdek arrived exhausted and starving at Prask’s home after escaping from a forced-labor camp. Bojdek was covered with sores and Prask nursed him back to health and hid him for a year. Soon before the liberation, Bojdek ventured out of the hiding place only to be murdered by nationalist Ukrainians. Among the Jews hidden by Prask were Salek Lipszyc, Jakub Szczęśliwy, Moniek Goldstein and Salomon Anielewicz. Everything Prask did to save Jews was purely motivated by altruism, without asking for or receiving anything at all in return. On December 22, 1964, Yad Vashem recognized Karol Prask as Righteous Among the Nations.