Jetkiewicz Janina (Markiewicz); Daughter: Łopuszańska Maria (Jetkiewicz); Husband: Henryk

Jetkiewicz, Henryk Jetkiewicz, Janina Łopuszańska-Jetkiewicz, Maria In the spring of 1942, Rajzl Feldman and her seven-year-old daughter, Janina, escaped from the Krakow ghetto. Members of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) supplied the two refugees with “Aryan” documents and arranged accommodation for them in Warsaw. A Zegota activist also put Feldman and her daughter in touch with the Polish author Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, who arranged for them to stay with Henryk and Janina Jetkiewicz, underground activists, who lived with their 16-year-old daughter, Maria, in central Warsaw. When Feldman and her daughter arrived at the Jetkiewiczes they were both suffering from tuberculosis, and in 1943 the mother passed away. Little Janina stayed on with the Jetkiewiczes, who nursed her back to health. When the Jetkiewiczes participated in the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, their daughter, Maria, took over sole responsibility for Janina. After the suppression of the uprising and the evacuation of the city’s population, the Jetkiewiczes took Janina with them to Plock, where they remained until the area was liberated by the Red Army. After the war, Janina stayed in Poland where she married and raised a family. She never forgot her saviors, and for many years remained friendly with their daughter, Maria. On May 6, 1997, Yad Vashem recognized Janina and Henryk Jetkiewicz, and their daughter, Maria Łopuszańska-Jetkiewicz, as Righteous Among the Nations. File 7595