Sambora Ludwik & Anna ; Stepson: Walichowski Eugeniusz ; Stepdaughter: Sokołowska Teresa (Walichowska)

Sambora Ludwik Sambora Anna Walichowski Eugeniusz Sokołowska-Walichowska Teresa In the autumn of 1942, after a series of bloody Aktionen in which the Jews of the village of Jodłowa, in the county of Dębica, Rzeszów district, were deported, Malka Fenichel fled with her seven-year-old son, Abraham (Romek), and her 12-year-old niece, Lea Harash. After wandering through the countryside, the three returned, at dead of night, to their village and knocked on the door of Ludwik and Anna Sambora, their neighbors. The Samboras invited the three Jewish refugees into their cottage, where they lived with their three children and Teresa and Eugeniusz, Anna’s children from her previous marriage. Initially, Ludwik hid the refugees in the barn, but later dug a bunker for them under their cottage. At times of particular danger, the refugees escaped to the surrounding fields and hid among the crops. Fenichel and her son and niece stayed with the Samboras until January 1945, when the area was liberated by the Red Army. Throughout this period, the Samboras themselves went short in order to feed their charges. Eugeniusz and Teresa, who kept the refugees’ presence secret, helped look after them, and warned them of impending danger. In risking their lives for their neighbors, the Samboras were guided by humanitarian motives only. After the war, before immigrating to Israel, Fenichel signed over the deeds of the house she had inherited from her parents to the Samboras as a token of her gratitude. On August 31, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Anna and Ludwik Sambora, and Anna’s children by her previous marriage, Eugeniusz Walichowski and Teresa Sokołowska-Walichowska, as Righteous Among the Nations. File 6179