Regula Władysław & Rozalia

Regula, Władysław Regula, Rozalia In June 1943, after the Germans liquidated the Brzezany ghetto, in the Tarnopol district, in Eastern Galicia, Shoshana Majblum (later Sandel) fled to a farm outside the city where, together with fourteen other Jews, she hid in a bunker. A few months later, the Germans, alerted by an informer, discovered them and killed most of them. Majblum and young Berta Laks survived the massacre, and began wandering from place to place, looking for a new hiding place. From their stay in the bunker, the young women remembered the names of Władysław and Rozalia Regula, a peasant couple from Brzezany, who lived on the outskirts of the forest, and helped Jews. One night, Shoshana and Berta reached the Regulas’ home, and were given a warm welcome. Despite the danger, Brzezany prepared a special hiding place for them not far from the forest, where they, and Andzia Katz who joined them, stayed until the spring of 1944, when the area was liberated. The Regulas, guided by humanitarian and religious consideration, brought the Jewish fugitives food and clothes under cover of darkness, without expecting anything in return. After the war, Shoshana Majblum immigrated to Israel, Laks to Germany, while Katz disappeared, and was never heard of again. The Regulas moved to an area within the new borders of Poland. On March 31, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Rozalia and Władysław Regula as Righteous Among the Nations. File 5663