Kościółko Anna ; Daughter: Mysłowska Maria (Kościółko); Daughter: Góral Karolina (Kościółko)

Kościółko Anna Mysłowska-Kościółko, Maria Góral-Kościółko, Karolina In April 1943, after the German Aktion in Boryslaw, in the Lwow district, the Landaus, one of the most prestigious families of the Drohobycz Jewish community, decided to leave the ghetto, and look for a hiding place. Dvora Landau, the mother, asked Anna Kościółko, a friend of hers, who lived with her two daughters on the outskirts of the city, in Tustanowice, for help. When Kościółko agreed to put them up, Landau and her two children, Yehuda and Tamar, arrived at the Kościółkos’ home, where they were welcomed and taken to an underground hiding place under the floorboards of one of the rooms. Her husband, Shmaryahu, and eldest son, Elimelech, who had official work permits, stayed on a while in the ghetto but soon they, too, joined them, together with Salka Horowicz, their former shop assistant. Despite the danger, Kościółko and her daughters looked after all six Jewish refugees devotedly, and kept their spirits up. The refugees stayed with them until August 1944, when the area was liberated by the Red Army, after which they immigrated to Israel. Some of the refugees kept up a regular correspondence with Kościółko and her daughters who moved to Krakow after the war, and sent them parcels and money. On November 30, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Anna Kościółko, and her daughters, Maria Mysłowska (née Kościółko) and Karolina Góral (née Kościółko), as Righteous Among the Nations.