Uhryńska Klementyna

UHRYŃSKA, KLEMENTYNA During the war, Klementyna Uhryńska lived in Skala Podolska, in the county of Borszczow, Tarnopol district. Her dwelling stood on the border of the town’s limits and was located near a Jewish cemetery. There she met Frieda Gizler who had come to Skala Podolska from Czortkow after the liquidation of the ghetto there. When Frieda told her that she had no money and was alone, Klementyna took her into her home, anyway. “I found shelter in her house... from August 1942 through March 1944. Though she lived very hard up, that lovely woman, wholeheartedly, did her best to support me morally, shared her meager food with me, surrounded me with love and motherly warmth,” wrote Frieda in her testimony to Yad Vashem. She also added that one week after moving in with Klementyna she learned that there was also another young Jewish woman hiding in the garret. This woman had been wounded during an Aktion and, along with the murdered Jews, was transported to the cemetery. After she regained consciousness, though bleeding and blinded in one eye, she managed to reach Klementyna’s home. Her fate remains unknown. After the war, Frieda immigrated to Israel and Klementyna moved to Wroclaw. On May 26, 1983, Yad Vashem recognized Klementyna Uhryńska as Righteous Among the Nations.