Oberda Jakub & Stefania (Bartniecka); Son: Longin ; Son: Władysław

Oberda, Jakub Oberda, Stefania Oberda, Wladyslaw Oberda, Longin One night in 1942, four strangers knocked at the door of the Oberda family of the village of Majdan Sielec, in the Lublin district. The strangers identified themselves as Jews that had escaped from the nearby town of Komarow and asked to be hidden. They were Moshko Trost and his sister Fania and brothers Leib and Heronek Edelstein, none of whom had ever knew close the Oberda family before that nocturnal meeting. After a family consultation, paterfamilias Jakub Oberda took the four Jewish fugitives and hid them in a loft above his cowshed, where they remained for about two years until the liberation of the area by the Red Army in the summer of 1944. The fugitives spent their days in hiding, coming out only at night to take in a little fresh air. The Oberdas’ two adult sons, Wladyslaw and Longin, who like their parents were well aware of the danger involved in hiding Jews, did most of the work of caring for them. The Oberdas carefully concealed the hiding place, and despite their own modest circumstances, covered all the expenses of hiding the four people. Everything the Oberdas did to save the Jews was motivated by pure altruism, and they never asked for or received anything in return. After the war, the survivors immigrated to the United States. On June 2, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Stefania Oberda, her husband Jakub Oberda and their sons Longin Oberda and Wladyslaw Oberda as Righteous Among the Nations. File 5714