Śliwczyński Jerzy ; Father: Tadeusz

File 2165 * Śliwczyński, Jerzy Piotr (and father) Śliwczyński, Tadeusz Before the war, the Śliwczyński family, from the town of Mława located in the Warsaw district, lived on the same street as the Złotnik family. Złotniks’s daughter named Złotnik-Perkiel Ela (known also as- Ella, Yokhved) was in the same class as one of the Śliwczyński girls. During the occupation times, the two families moved to Warsaw (in the beginning of the war), where the Złotniks were interned in to the Warsaw ghetto. In 1943, when Ela and her father hid on the “Aryan side of the city”, the ties between the two families were renewed, and Ela and the Śliwczyński’s son, named Jerzy, met frequently. In 1944, after the Gestapo arrested Ela’s father, Ela had to change her identity and to disappear. Jerzy helped her by arranging a temporary hiding place for her outside the city (in a nearby village), and by obtaining new forged identity documents (“Aryan” documents as well as a registration of residence) for her. When Ela returned to Warsaw, she stayed with Śliwczyński until the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. When the Germans arrested Jerzy, Ela stayed in his parents’ house, till her immigrated to the United States. The Śliwczyński family helped other Jews from the town of Mława who hid on the “Aryan side of Warsaw”, among them were: the Makowski couple with their daughter- Dr. Makowski, Mrs. Makowska and their daugther; the Kleniec family: (Pharmacist by a profession) Kleniec Jakub, Mrs. Klieniecka, and Klieniec Rutka; Czech (nèe: Pieck) Celina from the town of Działdowo and (Ms. / Mrs.) Bieżuńska from Mława. Despite the surrounding danger, the Śliwczyński family considered their action as a human duty to help their Jewish friends, and never expected anything in return. On the 2nd of December 1981, Yad Vashem recognized Śliwczyński Jerzy Piotr and his father, Śliwczyński Tadeusz, as Righteous Among the Nations.