Schüssel Alfred

Bogucki, Karol Pawlicki, Jan Schüssel, Alfred In 1942, after the massacres perpetrated by the Germans and Ukrainians against the Jews of Zborow, in the Tarnopol district, Menahem Doll and his wife, Anna, decided to flee with their daughter, Janina. Jan Pawlicki, the local priest, came to their aid, by providing them with false documents and transferring them to nearby Brzezany. While in Brzezany, Doll found work through a friend, Karol Bogucki, who passed the Dolls off as acquaintances of his. In 1943, the Gestapo, on the basis of a tip-off, arrested the Dolls. When Bogucki discovered what had happened, he hurried to the Gestapo and testified that the Dolls were Polish friends of his. After the Dolls were released, Doll found work as an accountant in a Polish office run by Dr. Alfred Schüssel. Although Schüssel knew that the Dolls were Jewish, he tried to help them to the best of his ability. Inter alia, he went to the population registry to testify that their papers were authentic. When the Dolls were re-arrested by the Gestapo, Schüssel used his ties with government officials to obtain their release. Schüssel also helped other Jews, among them the wife and the daughter of Shmuel Rita. With his help they were released from the prison in Brzezany, and then Schüssel helped to find hideouts for them. The Dolls were liberated by the Red Army in the summer of 1944, after which they immigrated to Israel, while their benefactors moved to an area within the new borders of Poland. They later described their three benefactors as courageous people who, out of humanitarian considerations, risked their lives to help them in their time of need. On April 29, 1969, Yad Vashem recognized Karol Bogucki and Jan Pawlicki as Righteous Among the Nations. On October 7, 1969, Yad Vashem recognized Alfred Schüssel as Righteous Among the Nations.