Halkiew Weronika ; Husband: Michał

Halkiew-Kamińska, Weronika-Bronisława Halkiew, Michał In 1942, Fryda Kahane and her sister, Siania Pfeffer, escaped from the forced labor camp of Kurowice, in the Lwow district. After many hardships, they reached the town of Śniatyn-Załucze, near the Romanian border, where Michał and Weronika Halkiew were already hiding Henryk, Kahane’s son, and the Steins, relatives of the two sisters. Upon arriving at the Halkiew’s home, the sisters were immediately taken to a special bunker behind one of the farm buildings, where the others were already hiding. The Halkiews, guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship, looked after the eight refugees devotedly, until the area was liberated in March 1944. The eight survivors were: Siania Pfeffer; her sister Fryda Kahane and her son Henryk; Lipa Stein, his mother, Adela Stein, his son David, his daughter, Fryda, and a relative named Mundzio Schuster. After the war, most of them immigrated to Israel and Austria. After her husband’s death, Halkiew (later Kaminska) moved to an area within the new Polish borders. On February 23, 1984, Yad Vashem recognized Weronika-Bronisława Kamińska (Halkiew by her first marriage) as Righteous Among the Nations. On December 16, 1998, Yad Vashem recognized Michał Halkiew as Righteous Among the Nations. File 2844