Grocholski Stanisław & Grocholska Anna (Sachajdak)

Grocholski Stanisław Grocholska Anna Grocholski Józef Grocholska Olga In July 1943, with the beginning of the liquidation of the Kopyczyńce ghetto in the Tarnopol district, Ignacy Halpert arrived at Stanisław Grocholski’s farm, in Kolonia Hetmańska. Halpert asked Grocholski, a friend of his from the army, to shelter him, his wife, Nuśka, and his relatives, Jakub and Edward Werner, Ignacy Chutys, Surka Sznajder, and Rywka Gurtman. Stanisław and Anna Grocholski, who had a three-year-old boy, agreed, despite the danger to them and their child. After digging a hiding place for the refugees under the kitchen floor, they looked after them and supported them without asking for anything in return. Stanisław’s brother and sister-in-law, Józef and Olga Grocholski, also rescued Jews. That summer, Paweł Fuks, his cousin Etka Fuks, and a woman called Sznajder, turned up at their farm, and told them how they had been staying with a Ukrainian farmer, who had robbed them of all their money and was planning to report them to the police. Stirred to compassion, Józef and Olga Grocholski hid the Jewish refugees, and looked after them at their own expense. All the refugees stayed with the two Grocholski families until the area was liberated by the Red Army in March 1944. On May 11, 1987, Yad Vashem recognized Anna and Stanisław Grocholski and Olga and Józef Grocholski as Righteous Among the Nations.