Paribek Tadeusz & Waleria

Paribek, Tadeusz Paribek, Waleria Alexander Kelber was less than a year old when his parents gave him to their neighbors Tadeusz and Waleria Paribek for safekeeping before fleeing with their older son from Trembowla, in the Tarnopol district, in Eastern Galicia. Ukranian nationalists murdered the parents and son, and young Alexander never saw them again. The Paribeks, who had three children of their own, treated Alexander as their own, and since he was the youngest, they pampered him. After the war, the Paribek family moved to western Poland with Alexander Kelber, where a relative discovered the Jewish child. He was taken to an orphanage for the Jews of Krakow and from there, immigrated to Israel. Kelber, later Arnon, kept in touch with the Paribek family for many years after the war, never forgetting that they took him in and treated him like a son, and without asking for or receiving anything in return, hid additional Jewish fugitives in their home. On December 21, 1982, Yad Vashem recognized Waleria Paribek and her husband Tadeusz Paribek as Righteous Among the Nations.