Urban Jan ; Mother: Anna

URBAN, JAN URBAN, ANNA Jan Urban and his mother, Anna, lived in the village of Bieniawa in the Podhajce county, Tarnopol District. In the same village, prior to the war, lived a Jewish family - the Glücksmans. The family consisted of Abraham, his wife Fanny, and their three sons, Izydor, Zacharia, and Morris. In 1943, after the Shavuot holidays, when the liquidation of the Kozowa ghetto was underway, the Glücksmans escaped and hid themselves in the forest near Bieniawa. In July 1943, they asked Jan and his mother, whom they had known previously, for help. Without giving it a second thought, Jan and Anna agreed to shelter them. Jan dug a shelter where the Glücksmans were able to hide until the arrival of the Red Army in March 1944. “Though the Urbans had not much for themselves, they shared everything with us. They never demanded any reward,” wrote Izydor Glücksman in his testimony to Yad Vashem. After the war, the Glücksmans immigrated to the United States. In 1972, Jan and his sons also left for the United States. On January 18, 1983, Yad Vashem recognized Jan Urban and his mother, Anna Urban, as Righteous Among the Nations.