Ostrowski Jan & Ostrowska Maria (Glowacz)

Ostrowski, Jan Ostrowska, Maria Just before the Aktion in the Luck ghetto, in the Volhynia district, in August 1942, Ludwik Fikowski, his wife Sonia and her sister Liza Zlotak turned to acquaintances Jan and Maria Ostrowski in the hope that they would hide them. The Ostrowskis, who owned a farm in the village of Korszewiec not far from the city, received the three fugitives warmly and hid them in a loft in one of the farm buildings. At night, they took the three fugitives into the house so that they could wash and warm up. After a while, the six members of the Kaszkiet and Rozenfeld families also arrived on the farm, and because there were two young children among them, Ostrowski and his wife decided to hide them inside the house so that the children would not suffer from the cold. Despite the danger to their lives, the Ostrowskis treated the nine fugitives with kind devotion, never asking for or receiving anything in return. One day, Ukrainian nationalists discovered the Jews hiding on the farm and murdered six of them. The three remaining fugitives survived until their liberation in February 1944. After the war, the Fikowskis immigrated to Israel, Zlotak immigrated to the United States and Jan and Maria Ostrowski moved to an area within the new Polish borders. On April 16, 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Maria Ostrowska and her husband Jan Ostrowski as Righteous Among the Nations.