Tołwiński Stanisław

Tołwiński Stanisław During the German occupation, Stanisław Tołwiński, an engineer, served as director of a public building firm in Warsaw. Despite the danger, Tołwiński exploited his position and status in order to help Jews who escaped from the ghetto, by employing them in his firm. Among the Jews Tołwiński employed were: Zofia Pilc, Helena and Szymon Syrkus, both of whom were architects, Maria Aszer, an accountant, Aleksander Dyszko - Wolski, and Mieczysław Karol Dubiński, both of whom were engineers. Tołwiński obtained “Aryan” documents for his employees, as well as documents testifying to their professional expertise, as requested by the firm, and found accommodation for other refugees in the city. Since the company had subsidiaries in the Kielce and Kraków districts, Tołwiński sent his Jewish employees to work in the subsidiaries prior to the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. After the war, Tołwiński, who saw saving persecuted Jews as a human and patriotic duty, was appointed mayor of Warsaw. On April 10, 1997, Yad Vashem recognized Stanisław Tołwiński as Righteous Among the Nations. File 7443