Śwital Stanisław

Śwital, Stanisław During the war, Stanislaw Swital was the director of the hospital in Boernerow in the Warsaw suburbs. He was an active in the Resistance movement and had participated in the Warsaw Uprising in the late summer of 1944. On November 15, 1944, Alina Margolis came to him and asked him to help the members the ZOB. The former fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising had been hiding in a cellar on Promyk Street in Zoliborz, a Warsaw quarter. Their hideout was in danger of being found because the Nazis were building fortifications nearby. Dr. Swital gathered together teams of five hospital workers each who were able to reach the rebels by using their Red Cross patches on their arms as cover. Some of those in hiding were put on stretchers and carried away. Among those rescued were Yitzchak Cukierman (“Antek"), Tzivia Lubetkin (“Celina"), Tuvia Borzykowski (“Tadek"), Julian Fiszgrund ("Julek"), Zygmunt Warman, and Marek Edelman. On January 1, 1981, Yad Vashem recognized Stanislaw Swital as Righteous Among the Nations. File 1968