Kisiel Adolf & Otylia (Tokarska)

Singer, Franciszek Singer, Maria Kisiel-Dmetrecki, Adolf Kisiel-Dmetrecka, Otylia In the summer of 1942, shortly before the liquidation of the Jews of Borszczow, in the Tarnopol district, Rita Lubliner asked a Polish friend for help. The friend immediately contacted her grandfather, Franciszek Singer, an ethnic German (Volksdeutche) who lived with his wife, Maria, on an isolated walled estate, on the outskirts of the nearby town of Skała Podolska. With his wife’s consent, Singer smuggled Lubliner out of Borszczow and brought her home. The Singers looked after Lubliner devotedly, but her stay was cut short a few weeks later, when one of the workers on the estate informed on her. Lubliner approached another friend who lived with her parents in the town of Wierzbowiec. The parents, Adolf and Otylia Kisiel-Dmetrecki, agreed to shelter Lubliner, even though Adolf Kisiel-Dmetrecki had already been arrested in the past for hiding Jews, and had been released only through the intervention of friends who had connections with the authorities. Despite the danger, Kisiel-Dmetrecki and his wife, guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety, sheltered Lubliner, protected her, and saw to all her needs. In time, Lubliner was joined by brothers Erwin and Fred Sandhaus. The three stayed with the Kisiel-Dmetreckis until their liberation. After the war, both survivors and saviors moved to central Poland where they remained close friends. On January 30, 1997, Yad Vashem recognized Maria and Franciszek Singer and Otylia and Adolf Kisiel-Dmetrecki as Righteous Among the Nations. File 7344