Stefanowicz Stefania ; Daughter: Landzwójczak Eleonora (Stefanowicz); Daughter: Topercer Agata (Stefanowicz); Husband: Leon

File 3817 STEFANOWICZ, LEON STEFANOWICZ, STEFANIA TOPERCER (NÉE: STEFANOWICZ), AGATA KOZIAŃSKA-LANDZWÓJCZAK (NÉE: STEFANOWICZ), ELEONORA During the war, Leon and Stefania Stefanowicz lived with their three children in the suburbs of Brzeżany, Eastern Galicia, in a house with a garden. In June 1943, after the last Aktion in Brzeżany, eleven-year-old Lija Hochberg found her way to the Stefanowiczes, to whom her parents, who had been friendly with them before the war, directed her. The Stefanowiczes sheltered Lija for one year, until the liberation, in the garret and in the cellar of their home. Leon and Stefania’s daughters, Agata and Eleonora, brought Lija meals. “After the war, I learned that the Stefanowicz family sheltered three other Jews too – the brothers Józef and Jakub Weiss, and a young girl who committed suicide immediately after the liberation,” wrote Lija (later Blumenfeld) in her testimony to Yad Vashem. Lija later immigrated to Israel; the Weisses left Poland in 1947 and settled in the United States; and the Stefanowiczes moved to live within the new borders of Poland. On February 24, 1988, Yad Vashem recognized Leon Stefanowicz, his wife, Stefania Stefanowicz, and their daughters, Agata Topercer (née: Stefanowicz) and Eleonora Koziańska-Landzwójczak (née: Stefanowicz), as Righteous Among the Nations.