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Sapeta Karolina (Bober)

Righteous
Sapeta, Karolina File 6396 Before the war, Karolina Sapeta was a domestic for the Hochheiser family in Kraków. Sapeta lived in their home and gave their children warm and devoted care. During the occupation, after the Hochheisers were interned in the ghetto, Sapeta again came to their aid and illegally provided them with food and clothing. In March 1943, when the Kraków ghetto experienced its final Aktion, Sapeta decided to at least rescue the Hochheisers’ children. She removed ten-year-old Samuel (subsequently Stanisław Sapeta) and his nine-year-old sister Sara (subsequently Barbara Żytowska) and took them to her parents’ home in Witanowice (Wadowice county, Kraków district). The Jewish children were hidden in farm buildings and Sapeta visited them weekly and used her meager earnings to meet their needs. In 1944, shortly before the liberation, villagers discovered the two Jewish children and intended to murder them. Sapeta protected them tenaciously, removed them from the clutches of their would-be killers, and placed them in hiding elsewhere. After the war, when it transpired that their parents had perished, Sapeta took them into her home in Kraków and raised them as her children. Sapeta spent the rest of her days with Sara-Barbara née Hochheiser and treated her children as if they were her grandchildren. On January 11, 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Karolina Sapeta as Righteous Among the Nations.
Last Name
Sapeta
First Name
Karolina
Maiden Name
Bober
Date of Birth
11/01/1897
Date of Death
04/04/1998
Fate
survived
Nationality
POLAND
Religion
ROMAN CATHOLIC
Gender
Female
Profession
NANNY
Item ID
4017332
Recognition Date
11/01/1995
Ceremony Place
Copenhagen, Denmark
Commemoration
Wall of Honor
Ceremony In Yad Vashem
No
File Number
M.31.2/6396