Stankiewicz Mikołaj & Maria (Wołochaciuk); Son: Stanisław ; Son: Piotr ; Daughter: Anna

Stankiewicz Mikołaj Stankiewicz Maria Stankiewicz Piotr Stankiewicz Anna Stankiewicz Stanisław During the Aktion perpetrated in June 1943 against the Jews in the ghetto of Borszczów, in the Tarnopol district, Abram and Lotka Rosenwald, their daughters, Zosia, Mira and Andzia, and their sons, David and Owadia, managed to escape from the ghetto. In May1943, after wandering through fields and villages and hiding in the forest, the seven refugees reached the village of Muszkatówka, in the county of Borszczów, where they turned to Mikołaj and Maria Stankiewicz, former acquaintances of theirs. Despite the climate of rampant hostility toward Jews and Poles alike, the Stankiewiczes and their three children, Anna, Piotr and Stanisław, helped their Jewish acquaintances. Guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship, the Stankiewiczes built a hiding place for the refugees in their cowshed, concealed behind a wooden partition, where the refugees stayed throughout the day. One day, a Ukrainian neighbor became suspicious when Lotka Rosenwald, who had died following a heart attack, was buried in the farmyard. The police, alerted by the neighbor, raided their home, but did not discover the refugees. The Stankiewiczes looked after the refugees devotedly until the area was liberated in July 1944. When the Stankiewiczes’ rescue efforts became public knowledge, a gang of Ukrainian nationalists raided their home and killed Mikołaj. After the war, Maria Stankiewicz moved with her children to an area within Poland’s new borders while the Rosenwalds immigrated to the United States, where Piotr visited them in 1982. On April 28 1989Yad Vashem recognized Maria and Mikołaj Stankiewicz, their sons Piotr and Stanisław, and their daughter, Anna, as Righteous Among the Nations. File 4165