Piotrowski Kazimierz & Piotrowska Waleria ; Daughter: Czarnecka Wilhelmina (Piotrowska)

File 4138 Piotrowski, Kazimierz Piotrowska, Waleria Piotrowska-Czarnecka, Wilhelmina In late 1942, during the deportations from the Przemyśl ghetto, in the Rzeszów district, Sala Doppelt managed to escape together with her three sons Maximilian, Zygmunt and Oskar. They were joined on the Aryan side of the city by Zygmunt Gerber, who had lost his wife and two children. The five Jewish fugitives searched for a place to hide and arrived at the home of the Piotrowski family. After consulting with his wife Waleria and their daughter Wilhelmina, Kazimierz Piotrowski, who before the war had worked in the wallet factory owned by the Doppelt family, agreed to hide them in his home. The five Jews hid in the Piotrowski home in Przemyśl for two years, until the liberation of the area by the Red Army in the summer of 1944. Throughout that entire period, the Piotrowski family took care of all their needs, and despite the terrible danger that constantly hovered over them, treated them with kind devotion and never asked for or received anything in return. After the war, the Doppelt family immigrated to France. Gerber volunteered for the Polish army immediately after the liberation and was killed in the battles near the city of Kołobrzeg, on the banks of the Baltic Sea. On May 3, 1989, Yad Vashem recognized Waleria Piotrowska, her husband Kazimierz Piotrowski and their daughter Wilhelmina Piotrowska-Czarnecka as Righteous Among the Nations.