Koczorowski Zygmunt & Koczorowska Jadwiga

Koczorowski, Zygmunt Koczorowska, Jadwiga Dobrolubow, Barbara In 1942, when the Germans deported the Jews from the village of Szreniawa to the nearby Krakow ghetto, the Sznajders tried to find a hiding place with Christian farmers in the village. However, the only member of the family who managed to find a hiding place was 16-year-old Genia Sznajder, who was taken in by Barbara Dobrolubow, an old school friend of hers who, together with her family, looked after Sznajder devotedly, without expecting anything in return. A few weeks later, the Dobrolubows decided to send her to relatives of theirs in Warsaw, where no one knew her, on the assumption that, with her Aryan looks, she had a better chance of surviving there. In Warsaw, Sznajder was taken in by Zygmunt and Jadwiga Koczorowski, Dobrolubow’s uncle and aunt, who looked after her, obtained “Aryan” documents for her, and registered her at a convent high school belonging to the Urszulanki Sisters. The Koczorowskis kept up loving contact with Sznajder, who stayed in the home run by the sisters until the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. After the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in late summer 1944, Sznajder was sent to Germany with the other children of the home, and Koczorowski was sent to a concentration camp. After the war, they met up again in Warsaw, and Sznajder stayed with the Koczorowskis until she finished her studies. In 1954, Sznajder immigrated to Israel. On January 29, 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Barbara Dobrolubow and Jadwiga and Zygmunt Koczorowski as Righteous Among the Nations.