Korona Anna (Prokop); Son: Zbigniew

Baumgarten, Maria Baumgarten, Józef Korona, Anna Korona, Zbigniew In November 1942, the Germans killed Dr. Loew, a dentist who lived in Drohobycz, in the Lwów district. When his patients, Maria and Józef Baumgarten and Anna Korona and her son, Zbigniew found out, they rushed to the aid of his family. Despite the risk entailed, they hid his widow, Ludwika Loew and her mother, Elzbieta Obrowicz, in a well-concealed bunker in the Baumgartens’ yard. Baumgarten and his wife obtained an “Aryan” birth certificate for Stefan, who stayed with Anna Korona in her apartment. Anna’s son Zbigniew, looked after the baby devotedly, passing him off as an orphaned relative. In risking their lives for the three refugees, the Baumgartens and Koronas were guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship. Ludwika Loew, her mother and son were liberated in August 1944 by the Red Army, and after the war, both saviors and survivors moved to an area within the new borders of Poland. On January 26, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Maria Baumgarten, her husband, Józef Baumgarten and Anna Korona and her son, Zbigniew Korona, as Righteous Among the Nations. File 5958