Jurytko Brunon & Bronisława

Jurytko Brunon Jurytko Bronisława One night in January 1945, Brunon and Bronisława Jurytko, who lived in the village of Książenice, in Upper Silesia, awoke to the sound of knocking on their window. When they opened the door, they were confronted by a group of frozen men, dressed in prisoners’ uniform, standing there. The refugees, thirteen in all, informed the Jurytkos that they were Jews who had fled from the death march during the evacuation of Auschwitz. Despite the danger, the Jurytkos hid the refugees in the hayloft on their farm. A few hours later, they were joined by another prisoner. For eight days, the Jurytkos looked after the fourteen Jewish refugees, whom they fed and provided with civilian clothes. Even the fact that the retreating Germans used to spend the night in haylofts they came across during their withdrawal did not deter the Jurytkos from their heroic resolution. After the war, the 14 Jews who were saved by Bronisława and Brunon Jurytko – Laib Fiszman, Abraham Stern, Szmul Liberman, Joseph Rotenberg, Eisenberg, B. Fajgenbaum, Benjamin Goldberg, Abram Jakobson, Hans Lehmann, David Kropfeld, Samgleben, Leo Lehmann, and Alfons Sass – emigrated to various countries. On July 17, 1991, Yad Vashem recognized Bronisława and Brunon Jurytko as Righteous Among the Nations. File 4947