Jorasz Bogdan & Irena (Ogniewska)

Ogniewska-Jorasz, Irena Jorasz, Bogdan In January 1943, the Breners decided to transfer their two-year-old daughter, Liliana, who was born in the Czestochowa ghetto, to the Aryan side of the city. They turned for help to Jorasz, a Polish acquaintance of theirs, who, in turn, asked Bogdan and Irena, his son and daughter-in-law, to look after her. Despite the danger, Bogdan and Irena Jorasz, who lived in Stalowa Wola, in the Tarnobrzeg district, agreed. When the neighbors began suspecting that the girl was Jewish, the Joraszes decided to move. In their new place, too, the neighbors became suspicious, and once again, the Joraszes moved on. The Joraszes looked after little Liliana lovingly, until the liberation, and never expected anything in return. When her parents, who had survived, came to claim their daughter, the Joraszes were heart-broken at losing Liliana. After the war, Liliana Sindel (née Brener) immigrated to Israel, and in 1982, invited Irena Jorasz, whom she continued to call “mother,” to stay with her. On March 21, 1981, Yad Vashem recognized Irena Ogniewska (Jorasz by her first marriage) and her first husband, Bogdan Jorasz, as Righteous Among the Nations.