Jaworska Anna ; Son: Jaworski Mikołaj ; Daughter: Wąchała Olga (Jaworska); Daughter: Suzańska Wiktoria (Jaworska)

File 4054 Jaworska, Anna Jaworski, Mikołaj Wąchała-Jaworska, Olga Jaworska, Helena Suzańska-Jaworska, Wiktoria In the summer of 1942, the Jaworskis, along with other inhabitants of the village of Mielnicze in the Lwów district, streamed to the town of Turka to purchase furniture and other items belonging to local Jews who had been interned in the ghetto, at bargain prices. When, Anna Jaworska, a widow, and her son and three daughters met Mendel and Frajda Zeifert, and their four small children, Lusiek, Lot, Roza and Shaya, they were stirred to compassion. Abandoning their bargain hunting, Jaworska and her children immediately offered the Zeiferts shelter on their farm. Soon after, the Zeiferts moved into an underground hiding place, which the Jaworskis prepared for them on their farm. Despite their straitened circumstances, the Jaworskis looked after the Zeiferts devotedly, even at times of extreme danger when the Germans and their Ukrainian collaborators ransacked the village looking for Jews. When the Zeifert children fell ill due to their unhealthy living quarters, Jaworska moved them to her attic, where they hid until the area was liberated by the Red Army in July 1944. Wiktoria, one of Jaworska’s daughters, also risked her life to save a Jewish refugee named Laja Jacko, by offering her her identity card, which enabled her to register for work in Germany. Although Wiktoria was later arrested, brutally interrogated, and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, she did not betray her Jewish friend. In throwing in their lot with the Jewish refugees, Jaworska and her children were guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety, and never expected anything in return. After the war, the Zeiferts immigrated to Israel, while Jaworska and her children moved to an area within the new borders of Poland. On February 9, 1989, Yad Vashem recognized Anna Jaworska and her son, Mikołaj Jaworski, as Righteous Among theNations. On September 12, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Olga Wąchała-Jaworska, Helena Jaworska, and Wiktoria Suzańska-Jaworska as Righteous Among the Nations.