Wołosiański Izydor & Wołosiańska Jarosława (Skolska)

Wołosiański, Izydor Wołosiańska, Jarosława Jarosława and Izydor Wołosiański lived in Drohobycz, in Eastern Galicia. Izydor, prior to becoming engaged to Jarosława, worked as a technician in a German workshop in which Jews worked as well. In September 1942, Izydor hid fourteen Jews - women and children - in the cellar of the villa where the workshop offices were located. Jarosława, Izydor’s fiancée, brought them food. In late 1942, Izydor and Jarosława found out that the apartment above the cellar and beneath the workshop offices was to be given over to a German woman. Izydor and Jarosława decided to get married and take over the apartment. The cellar housed eighteen people at that time. Before she married Izydor, Jarosława was already hiding a three-year-old Jewish girl named Ania. “Downstairs, more people were arriving. Now there were families down there,” wrote Jarosława in her testimony to Yad Vashem. Altogether, the Wołosiańskis hid 39 people until the liberation in August 1944. One of those hidden by the Wołosiańskis, Tova Stock, wrote: “The risk that the Wolosianskis took was enormous. Throughout the day, from six o’clock until the evening, Germans were walking around the workshop. This is why we slept during the day, and at nights arranged meals, did the laundry, etc. Sometimes we sold some things to earn money for some food. The Wołosiańskis were also occupied with this.” During the course of the war, the Wołosiańskis saved the five-member Stock family, the three-member Hendel family, three members of Moti’s family (a friend of Izydor’s whose last name is unknown), two of the Kreisler family, the four-member Klinghoffer family, and two members of the Frey family. Also, the five-member Miszel family, the Sobel family, the Lind family, consisting of three people, the three-member Tepper family, Amalia Rosenberg, Tacia Winkler, and a professor of medicine from Vienna and Prague. In their testimony, the Wołosiańskis explained theirmotivations: “We did not plan this. We did it then, when people were in need.” After the war, most of those saved by the Wołosiańskis left for Israel; the Wołosiańskis moved to Wrocław. On January 24, 1967, Yad Vashem recognized Izydor Wołosiański and his wife, Jarosława Wołosiańska, as Righteous Among the Nations.