Wilniewczyc Wacław & Maria ; Daughter: Zmigrodzka Anna (Wilniewczyc)

WILNIEWCZYC, WACŁAW WILNIEWCZYC, MARIA ZMIGRODZKA-WILNIEWCZYC, ANNA Wacław and Maria Wilniewczyc lived with their daughter Anna near Warsaw. Towards the end of 1942, Władysława Choms (recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations in 1966) came to them from Lwów and brought with her Ludmiła Bogdanowicz and her sister Dr. Irena Begleiter. Władysława, whose husband served in the Polish Army along with Wilniewczyc, explained that the women were Jews who had escaped from a transport in Lwów and were in need of shelter. The Wilniewczyces agreed at once to put them up and kept the two women in their apartment for two months. They later moved the women to an empty apartment next door to theirs, where they arranged a special hideout. The sisters hid under the Wilniewczyces’ care until the liberation in January 1945. Throughout this time, the entire Wilniewczyc family cared for the fugitives, bringing them food and fulfilling all of their needs. They did all of this without any self-interest, being guided only by humanitarian motives. After the war, the surviving sisters immigrated to Israel. On December 12, 1985, Yad Vashem recognized Wacław Wilniewczyc, his wife Maria Wilniewczyc, and their daughter, Anna Zmigrodzka (nee Wilniewczyc), as Righteous Among the Nations.