Boruciński Michał & Borucińska Zofia ; Daughter: Soltan Hanna (Borucińska)

Boruciński, Michał Borucińska, Zofia Soltan-Borucińska, Hanna In August 1942, the day before the destruction of the Otwock ghetto near Warsaw, Mrs. Lippman (Lipsyzc) arranged for her two children to be taken from the ghetto and hidden on the Aryan side of the city just outside the ghetto. During the morning of the action in the ghetto the children became separated from each other. The mother was never heard of again, while her daughter spent the war in the Hasag camp in Czestochowa. After several weeks hiding outside Otwok ten-year-old Michael approached Hanna Borucińska, a young architect, at a railway station in the nearby town of Anin. Hanna took Michael home to Warsaw where she lived with her parents Michał and Zofia Boruciński. The Borucińskis looked after Michael, clothed, and fed him, and kept his spirits up. Some months later, the Borucińskis managed to obtain “Aryan” papers for Michael. As the danger of detection increased, they found a safe place for him with friends in Brwinow, west of Warsaw, where he remained under the assumed identity of Mieczysław Milewski, until the area was liberated in January 1945. Lippman, who later immigrated to Australia, never forgot how the Borucińskis had saved his life. On June 17, 1999, Yad Vashem recognized Zofia Borucińska, her husband, Michał Boruciński and their daughter, Hanna Soltan-Borucińska, as Righteous Among the Nations.