Słowik Tadeusz

Słowik, Tadeusz In early January 1943, Charlotta Katz, a young Jewess from Boryslaw who had been hiding in Lwow, approached Dr. Tadeusz Słowik, a district doctor in Podbuz, near Boryslaw, in Eastern Galicia, asking for help. Słowik welcomed Katz warmly, and agreed to put her up. In November 1943, Katz was joined by Słowik’s friend, Dr. Jakub Bauer, a gynecologist at the Boryslaw municipal hospital, whose life was in danger. Słowik, at his own expense, housed the refugees in separate rooms, where they hid, under relatively good conditions, until July 1944 when the area was liberated. Słowik also sheltered his classmate, Ryszard Sochaczewski, in his home for a period in 1942, and subsequently arranged for him to stay with a friend of his in Boryslaw. In risking his life to save Jews, Słowik was guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship. After the war, Słowik married Charlotta Katz and the two moved to Warsaw. On January 28, 1986, Yad Vashem recognized Tadeusz Słowik as Righteous Among the Nations.