Lukasiewicz Franciszek & Maria

Lukasiewicz Franciszek Lukasiewicz Maria In April 1942, Shaul Lilien (born 1924), an orphan, escaped from the Lwow ghetto and obtained Aryan documents. After many trials, Lilien reached the village of Stryjowa, in the county of Zbaraz, in the Tarnopol district where, under an assumed identity, he obtained work as a farmhand. Since his employers, however, refused to let him stay in their home, Lilien was forced to look for somewhere to sleep, and it was while he was looking that he came to the home of Franciszek and Maria Lukasiewicz, who offered him permanent accommodation. Although they later discovered that Lilien was a Jewish orphan, they allowed him to stay on, and even agreed to take in his sisters, Bertha and Fryda. Despite the danger and their straitened circumstances, the Lukasiewiczes looked after Bertha and Fryda till 1943, without expecting anything in return. Shaul left his saviors' home on August 1942 and joined a partisan unit, where he stayed until 1943. In risking their lives for the Lilien siblings, the Lukasiewiczes were guided by Christian love and humanitarian considerations only. After the war, Lilien immigrated to Israel while his sisters immigrated to the United States. The Lukasiewiczes moved to an area within Poland’s new post-war borders. Even after the Lukasiewiczes passed away, Lilien and his sisters kept up a correspondence with their children. On August 22, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Maria and Franciszek Lukasiewicz as Righteous Among the Nations. File No. 5678