Langiewicz Jan & Maria (Glowacka)

Langiewicz, Jan Michał Langiewicz, Maria Langiewicz Jan Michał was a history teacher who organized clandestine courses in occupied Warsaw. One day in 1942, one of his students asked him to arrange shelter for his Jewish girlfriend, whom he had managed to take out of the ghetto. Langiewicz had the student hired as janitor of the school where he taught and gave him a small room that served as a hideout for his ward, who possessed forged Aryan papers in the name of Krystyna Swierczynska. Some time later, another student made a similar request. He was looking for a hiding place for a Jewish woman named Szejna Lender, who had fled from the Sokołów Podlaski ghetto. This time, Langiewicz, with the consent of his wife Maria, chose to accommodate the Jewish woman in his apartment. Lender stayed with the Langiewicz couple until the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. Anna and Edward Rowinski, the victims of blackmailers in Otwock (near Warsaw) also found a shelter in Langiewicz’s apartment. As time passed, Anna found work as a maid and her husband spent about a year in the storeroom of the school because of his Semitic appearance. One day, after a denunciation, Anna was arrested in the street. The Langiewiczes rushed to the police station, where they got her released by testifying that the suspect was actually a devout Catholic. In July 1943, the Langiewiczes took in Paweł Lew Marek, a Jew who had survived the Ghetto Uprising, and Jan Michal found him a job. The Langiewiczes were in dire economic circumstances and shared their 1.5-room apartment and their meager food with their Jewish wards for no reason other than humanitarianism. In March 1944, the Gestapo arrested Jan Langiewicz, and deported him to the Stutthof concentration camp, where he was interned until the end of the war. After the Warsaw Uprising, his wife, Maria, was also arrested and sent to a labor camp located in Germany. All the Jews protected by the Langiewiczes survived the war and stayed in touch with their rescuers afterwards. On October 22, 1981, Yad Vashem recognized Jan Michał and Maria Langiewicz, as Righteous Among the Nations. File 2145m