Szymonowicz Wacław & Irena

Maciejko, Wojciech Szymonowicz, Wacław Szymonowicz, Irena In January 1943, Wojciech Maciejko, who was living in Warsaw, helped two sisters from the ghetto, Ada and Izabella Wolfowicz. At first, he sheltered them in his apartment, but later on he took Ada to his parents, who had been friends of the Wolfowiczes before the war. Ada stayed there until September 1944, while Wojciech’s friends, Wacław and Irena Szymonowicz, hid Izabella. After the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, the Szymonowiczes were expelled from the city, and Izabella fortunately found them again in Błędów, near Grojec, Warsaw district. She stayed with them again until the liberation in January 1945. Wojciech also helped Ludwika Luks, who stayed for a short time in his apartment. After the war, the sisters, Ada (later Rakocz) and Izabella (later Bates) moved to Israel. On May 23, 1967, Yad Vashem recognized Wojciech Maciejko as Righteous Among the Nations. On September 29, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Waclaw Szymonowicz and his wife, Irena Szymonowicz, as Righteous Among the Nations.