Stypuła Władysław & Róża (Podhajská)

STYPUŁA WŁADYSŁAW STYPUŁA RÓŻA During the war, Władysław and Róża Stypuła and their two sons lived in Chodorów, in the county of Bobrka, Lwów district. Władysław worked as a signal officer and railroad station manager in Pomonięty-Psary, near Chodorów. From 1942 until July 1944, the Stypułas sheltered Klara Felker (later Leizerowska) of Chodorów in their home. “In those terrible days I survived without so much as a penny to my name, without parents, just a young girl alone in the world, dependent on the goodwill of others,” wrote Klara Leizerowska in her testimony to Yad Vashem. After the war, Klara settled in the United States. “Our parents,” testified Władysław, the son of Władysław and Róża Stypuła, “did a good thing exclusively for humanitarian and religious reasons because they were unselfish people of high moral and ethical principles.” The head of the family, Władysław Stypuła, passed away in 1947 in a Soviet forced labor camp in Magadan near Vladivostok. On June 30, 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Władysław Stypuła and his wife, Róża Stypuła, as Righteous Among the Nations. File 5240