Dobrodziej Władysław & Krystyna (Bunin); Mother-In-Law: Bunin Helena (Drążkiewicz)

Dobrodziej, Władysław Dobrodziej-Habrowska, Krystyna Bunin, Helena-Maria One day in 1942, Władysław Dobrodziej, a member of the Polish underground, entered the Warsaw ghetto dressed as a Polish policeman, to get his friends, Maria and Henryk Angielczyk, out of the ghetto. After he succeeded in his mission, a shelter was arranged for the Angielczyks in the town of Piastow, near Warsaw. During the rescue operation, Dobrodziej gave his address to Barbara Grosglik who lived in the same apartment as the Angielczyks, together with her little daughter Elżbieta. That same year, Grosglik escaped with her daughter and moved into a rented apartment on the Aryan side of the city. When the German police got wind of their whereabouts, Grosglik turned to Dobrodziej who helped her out, as he had promised. After placing little Elżbieta in an institution for abandoned children run by nuns, Krystyna, his wife, took Grosglik to her mother, Helena-Maria Bunin, who lived in Miedzylesie, near Warsaw. The Dobrodziejs continued with their efforts to rescue Jews and helped Władysław Gorzynski escape from the ghetto. Thanks to the “Aryan” papers in his possession, Górzyński was sent to work in Germany, where he remained until the liberation. The Dobrodziejs were also instrumental in smuggling Zygmunt Rudniański, an engineer, his wife, his brother, Adam Najman, and a woman named Roza Bukiet out of the ghetto and hiding them in a house they rented in Piastow. The Dobrodziejs considered saving Jews as part of the struggle against a common enemy, and never expected anything in return. Władysław Dobrodziej was killed while carrying out an underground assignment. On January 31, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Władysław Dobrodziej, his wife, Krystyna Dobrodziej-Habrowska and Krystyna’s mother, Helena-Maria Bunin, as Righteous Among the Nations. File 5988