Zielińska Anna (Szałacka)

File 6375 ZIELIŃSKA, ANNA Anna Zielińska lived in Borszczów in the district of Tarnopol. Not far from her lived a Jewish family - Berel and Lea Turner and their two daughters. In 1942, the Turners were interned in the ghetto. In June 1943, the Borszczów ghetto was liquidated. The Turners turned to Anna for help. She agreed to help the entire family and hid them in her home for a few days. The Turners then left her home for fear of being discovered. They moved to the nearby woods and hid there for nine months in a hole that they had dug themselves. “We would not have survived that period if it were not for Mrs. Zielińska’s help. She knew our place in the woods and sent us food through various people. Without this help we would have died of hunger,” wrote Irena Doktorczyk, Berel and Lea’s daughter. After the war, the Turners moved to Lower Silesia and, in 1969, they immigrated to Germany. However, they never lost contact with Anna and, after her death, they maintained contact with her daughters and grandchildren. On December 13, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Anna Zielińska as Righteous Among the Nations.