Nakonieczny Jan ; Sister: Nakonieczna Franciszka ; Brother: Marian

Nakonieczny, Jan Nakonieczny, Marian Nakonieczna, Franciszka Before the Tarnopol ghetto was liquidated in the spring of 1943, Rachel Sperber, her daughter Sabina, her son Henryk, his girlfriend Cyla Turkel, and their cousin Felicja Kluger escaped from both the ghetto and a slave-labor camp nearby. The five Jewish refugees reached the home of the Nakonieczny family in the neighboring village of Czystyłów and asked for shelter. The Sperbers knew Jan and Marian Nakonieczny and their sister Franciszka as humble and devout Catholics who could be trusted. The Nakonieczny siblings led the Jewish fugitives to a hideout that they had prepared in a chicken coop. They spent their days concealed there and came out in the evening to help with the farm chores. The Nakoniecznys, who earned a scanty living from their farm, shared their meager food with their five Jewish wards for nearly a year—until the area was liberated in the spring of 1944—for purely humanitarian and religious motives, with no material reward. After the war, the survivors remembered the kindnesses that the Nakoniecznys had shown them, stayed in touch with them for many years, and invited Jan Nakonieczny to visit them in Israel. On September 21, 1978, Yad Vashem recognized Jan Nakonieczny as Righteous Among the Nations. On October 4, 1984, Yad Vashem recognized Marian and Franciszka Nakonieczny as Righteous Among the Nations.