Sobolewski Władysław & Sobolewska Bronislawa (Greniuk); Daughter: Kwaszyńska Franciszka (Sobolewska)

Sobolewski, Władysław Sobolewska, Bronisława Kwaszynska-Sobolewska, Franciszka In September 1942, during the liquidation of the Horodenka ghetto in the Stanislawow district, David and William Hausknecht were among the few Jews who managed to escape. After wandering through an area populated by hostile Ukrainians, they reached the outlying village of Olejowa Karolowka where Władysław Sobolewski, a local farmer, found them, exhausted and starving. Prompted by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship, Sobolewski, with his wife Bronisława’s consent, hid the two refugees in an outhouse on the farm. Franciszka, the Sobolewskis’ daughter, fed them, washed their clothes, removed their bodily waste and was generally responsible for the day-to-day care of the Hausknecht brothers. The Hausknechts stayed with the Sobolewskis until July 1944, when the area was liberated by the Red Army. After the war, the Sobolewskis settled within Poland’s postwar borders, while the Hausknechts immigrated to the United States, where they kept up a correspondence with Franciszka, even after her parents passed away. On January 31, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Bronisława and Władysław Sobolewski, and their daughter, Franciszka Kwaszynska-Sobolewska, as Righteous Among the Nations. File 5602