Gut Marianna ; Brother: Jan ; Brother: Feliks

Gut, Marianna Gut, Jan Gut, Feliks In August 1942, after the liquidation of the Minsk Mazowiecki ghetto in the Warsaw district, the few remaining Jews – including Lejb Rochman, Efrajim Siedlecki and their wives – were taken to a camp set up in the “Rudzki & Sohn” factory in that town. One day, when Rochman escaped from the factory, a passer-by named Marianna Gut, realizing he was Jewish, offered to hide him, his wife, and the Siedleckis in her small apartment. At first, the four refugees paid for their upkeep, but even when their money ran out, Gut continued looking after them at her own expense. In January 1944, when local Jew-hunts intensified, Marianna Gut sent the Rochmans and Siedleckis to her brother, Feliks, a farmer in a nearby village. After a while, they were joined in hiding by Jicchak Rozenberg. Feliks looked after his charges devotedly until April 1944, when the Germans murdered him during a purge of villagers suspected of harboring Jews in the village. Feliks’s brother, Jan, and his sister, Marianna, continued to look after the refugees who stayed on in their hiding place until the area was liberated by the Red Army in August 1944, and after the war, immigrated to Israel. In risking their lives to save Jews, the Guts were prompted by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship On July 13, 1965, Yad Vashem recognized Marianna Gut, and her brothers, Feliks and Jan, as Righteous Among the Nations.