Zarzycki Janusz

Zarzycki, Janusz General Janusz Zarzycki (Neugebauer) was an activist in the People’s Guard (Gwardia Ludowa). Mosze Wasserman (Michał Wróblewski), who worked until August 5, 1942 as an educator in Dr. Korczak’s children’s home, turned to Zarzycki for help after he found himself on the Aryan side of town. Zarzycki let Wasserman stay with him for two days and obtained false documents for him under the name Michał Wróblewski. He also arranged four different hideouts for Wasserman in Warsaw and in Pruszków, and helped him to get from Pruszków to Lwów, where he had arranged shelter for him with a Polish family. From Lwów, Wasserman moved to Kijów, where he found employment as a laborer. After the Red Army liberated the town, Wasserman enlisted in the Polish army. Another Jew saved thanks to Zarzycki was Stanisław Sierpiński, who escaped from the Warsaw ghetto on August 17, 1942. In mid-September, Sierpiński met Zarzycki and visited his apartment, where he received a handgun from him. Zarzycki also helped Sierpiński find a hideout. Later, Sierpiński joined the People’s Guard and fulfilled important functions in the partisan medical unit. Both survivors emphasized in their testimonies that Zarzycki helped them without self-interest and that solely humanitarian motives and hatred for the German occupiers guided him. Because of his anti-Nazi activities, Zarzycki was arrested and taken to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where he stayed until the liberation of the camp. Both survivors left Poland after 1968; Wasserman immigrated to Sweden and Sierpiński (who became a famous neurologist) immigrated to Israel. On January 21, 1988, Yad Vashem recognized Janusz Zarzycki as Righteous Among the Nations. File 3803