Morozowski Jan & Morozowska Olga

Morozowski, Jan Morozowska, Olga In September 1942, the Germans liquidated the ghetto in the town of Narajow, in the Brzezany county, in the Tarnopol district, and the very few Jews that managed to flee the massacre hid out in the forest or with Polish friends in nearby villages. Among those who managed to flee were Jetti Bogner, her son Mozjesz, her daughter Fela and her grandson Salomon (Shlomo) Bogner. After hiding for a few days in the thick of the forest, the four Jewish fugitives arrived in the village of Buszcze, also in the Brzezany county, where they had lived at the outbreak of the war. They knocked on the door of former neighbors, who at first agreed to hide them. However, after two months, they vehemently demanded that the fugitives leave. Frightened and desperate, the four members of the Bogner family went to the home of Jan and Olga Morozowski, past acquaintances, who also lived in the village. Without setting any conditions and without asking for or receiving anything in return, they prepared a hiding place for the Bogners and took care of all their needs. The Morozowskis hid the four members of the Bogner family until the liberation of the area by the Red Army in July 1944, and everything they did to save them was motivated by their sense of good neighborliness from the past. After the war, the Bogners immigrated to Israel, and their rescuers moved to territory within Poland’s new borders. On May 28, 1981, Yad Vashem recognized Olga Morozowska and her husband Jan Morozowski as Righteous Among the Nations.