Rosłoniec Julian

Rosloniec, Julian Stefan Julian Stefan Rosloniec was an activist of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews), in Warsaw. Two weeks before the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Fryda Hofman, in coordination with Rosloniec, smuggled her baby niece out of the ghetto and left him on Rosloniec’s doorstep. Rosloniec took in the baby and placed her in a Christian orphanage, where she survived. Rosloniec also rented an apartment in the building where he lived with his mother, to serve as a shelter for Bronka Frydman, Fryda Hofman, Lola Marek, and Edzia Stawenczyska, four Jewish refugees who had escaped from the ghetto. Rosloniec protected them, looked after them devotedly, and liaised between them and the outside world. When the concierge realized that Rosloniec was hiding Jewish women, she reported him to the police, and he was arrested and interrogated. Undaunted, however, he continued sheltering his protégés, thereby saving their lives. Rosloniec also distributed money provided by Zegota to more than twenty Jews hiding in various places on the Aryan side of Warsaw. In risking his life to save Jews, Rosloniec was guided by humanitarian and Socialist considerations, and never expected anything in return. After the war, Rosloniec married Bronka Frydman. On January 2, 1974, Yad Vashem recognized Julian Rosloniec as Righteous Among the Nations. File 811