Tarnowska Maria (Szmurło); Father: Szmurło Jan

Krauze, Kazimierz Jajeśniak-Krauze, Lucylla Szmurło, Jan Szmurło-Tarnowska, Maria Janina Dzierżanowska, Wanda In August 1942, while interned in the Warsaw ghetto, Witold Góra turned to his friend, Kazimierz Krauze, asking him to smuggle out his ten-year-old daughter, Barbara, from the ghetto. Krauze, and his wife Lucylla hid little Barbara for several weeks, and later also her father. Krauze, fearing discovery due to his apartment’s proximity to the ghetto, arranged for Barbara to stay with Wanda Dzierżanowska, who passed her off as her niece. In time, when neighbors began suspecting that Barbara was Jewish, Maria Janina Szmurło, a sister of the Goras’ former neighbor, took Barbara in with the consent of her father, Professor Jan Szmurło. All the people who helped save the life of Barbara Góra were guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship. Barbara Góra was liberated in Grochów, an eastern suburb of Warsaw, and subsequently reunited with her parents, whom Kazimierz and Lucylla Krauze had looked after in their separate hiding places during the occupation. After the war, the Góras stayed in Poland. On May 22, 1983, Yad Vashem recognized Kazimierz Krauze, Lucylla Jajesniak-Krauze, Wanda Dzierżanowska, Maria Janina Szmurło-Tarnowska and her father, Professor Jan Szmurło, as Righteous Among the Nations. On July 17, 1989, Yad Vashem recognized Lucylla Jajeśniak-Krauze as Righteous Among the Nations. File 2590