Codogni Stanisław ; Son: Karol

Codogni, Stanisław Codogni, Karol Stanisław Codogni, a blacksmith by profession, lived with his family in the town of Brzezany, in the Tarnopol district. Throughout the existence of the Brzezany ghetto, the Codognis kept their Jewish friends, the Bomzes, supplied with food and fuel. During the ghetto’s liquidation (April-June 1943), Fishel and Rivka Bomze, their daughter Chana Redlich, and her six-year-old son Shimon, hid in the attic of their apartment in the ghetto. Even after all the Jews had been deported, they continued hiding in the attic, while Codogni continued to see to all their needs. In November 1943, when new people began moving into the ghetto, the refugees had to find a new hiding place. Under cover of darkness, Codogni’s son, Karol, helped transfer Redlich and her son to a shelter Codogni had found for them on one of the farms in the nearby village of Raj. Bomze and his wife, who chose to seek another hiding place within the former ghetto, were discovered and shot. Redlich and her son stayed on the farm in Raj until the area was liberated in the spring of 1944. Throughout their stay, Codogni and his son, guided by a true and selfless loyalty to their friends, looked after them and saw to all their needs. On January 28, 1986, Yad Vashem recognized Stanisław Codogni and his son, Karol Codogni, as Righteous Among the Nations.