Kałucka Maria ; Daughter: Kot Maria (Kalucka); Son-In-Law: Kot Tadeusz ; Sister: Nowak Łucja

Kałucka, Maria Nowak, Łucja Kot-Kałucka, Maria Kot, Tadeusz In 1940, before the establishment of the Krakow ghetto, Maria Kałucka was asked by an acquaintance to look after a Jewish woman, Sabina Gutfreund, and her two-year-old baby daughter, Ania, on a temporary basis. Kałucka lived with her daughter, Maria Kot, and her invalid sister, Łucja Nowak, while Maris’s husband, Tadeusz, who was an activist in the Polish underground, was mostly away from home. Kałucka, Kot-Kałucka and Nowak soon grew fond of Gutfreund and her daughter, and let them stay on in their apartment. In 1943, after their Polish neighbor, who was a policeman, began suspecting that she was Jewish, Gutfreund decided to leave her hiding place. Tadeusz Kot obtained “Aryan” documents for Gutfreund and her daughter, and arranged their transfer from Krakow to Warsaw, where Gutfreund had relatives living on the Aryan side of the city. After the war, Gutfreund immigrated to Israel and Ania later immigrated to the United States where she married and raised a family. Later, they both testified that Maria Kałucka, her daughter, son-in-law, and sister were people of exceptional humanity who had risked their lives to help them in their darkest hour. On November 10, 1997, Yad Vashem recognized Maria Kałucka, her daughter Maria Kot-Kałucka, her son-in-law Tadeusz Kot, and her sister, Łucja Nowak, as Righteous Among the Nations.