Wohanski Adam & Władysława

File 4508 WOHAŃSKI, ADAM WOHAŃSKA, WŁADYSŁAWA Adam and Władysława Wohański lived in the village of Hnizdyczowa Kochawina in the county of Zydaczów, Eastern Galicia, with their two daughters. Before the war, Adam worked as a chemist in an alcohol distillery owned by a Jew named Eliasz Feldman. Eliasz’s son, Edmund, studied architecture in Italy and in 1928 settled in the Land of Israel. In 1939, Edmund visited his parents’ home. Due to the outbreak of the war, he could not leave Poland. In 1942, an Aktion took place. Feldman’s wife, his daughter Gusta, and her twelve-year-old daughter Lea (Lucia) were all deported to Bełżec. Eliasz and Edmund were not taken. A few days later, Lea appeared at the house after being thrown out of the train by her mother. They obtained “Aryan” papers for her and because of that, she was able to survive the war. Eliasz and Edmund agreed, together with Adam Wohański, that they would be hidden in a loft in an old warehouse in the distillery. They took useful objects from their home with them to the hideout. They entrusted the Wohańskis with two family photo albums that contained photographs of Edmund in the Land of Israel. Adam, who could come often to the distillery without arousing the suspicions of the Ukrainian neighbors, brought the Feldmans food and other needed products. He left these in predetermined places and at night Edmund picked them up. In March 1944, two months before the liberation, one of the Ukrainian neighbors discovered the Feldmans’ hideout and notified the Gestapo. Eliasz and Edmund were both shot. The Wohańskis fled and moved to Przemyśl. Lea, who survived the war, left for the Land of Israel in 1947. From there, she began corresponding with the Wohańskis. They sent the family photo albums to her that the Feldmans had left with them. In 1988, Lea visited Poland and met with Władysława’s sister, Janina Tokarz. In a letter to Lea, Janina wrote, “What could be done to save human life was done out ofhuman dignity and inner ethics, not counting on any effects or praises.” On January 8, 1990, Yad Vashem recognized Adam Wohański and his wife, Władysława Wohańska, as Righteous Among the Nations.