Yad Vashem Collections - Righteous

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Chmiel Aniela ; Daughter: Gaworska Janina (Chmiel)

Righteous

Chmiel, Aniela Gaworska-Chmiel, Janina The Wainstocks, who lived in Frampol, in the Lublin district, were business associates and friends of Aniela Chmiel, a widowed peasant who lived in the nearby village of Czarnystok together with her daughter, Janina. In 1942, when the Jews of Frampol were interned in the ghetto, the Wainstocks’ daughter, Tema, ran away from home at dead of night, and made her way to the Chmiels’ house. Aniela and Janina, out of loyalty to their friend, which overrode considerations of their own personal safety, welcomed Tema into their home. Although the Chmiels passed...

Nationality : Poland

Religion : Catholic

Fate : Survived

Tosza Wincenti & Aniela

Righteous

TOSZA, WINCENTY TOSZA, ANIELA During the war, Aniela and Wincenty Tosza and their son Tadek lived in Radziszow, near Krakow. Before the outbreak of the war, Wincenty worked as a police officer in Krakow. Once the war began, Wincenty, unwilling to serve the Germans, moved to the village of his wife’s family - Radziszow. On March 23, 1943, he met a Jew named Stanisław Hojda who had fled from the Plaszow concentration camp. The two had been acquainted before the war. Stanisław had been a furrier and sold furs to police officers’ wives. “Tosza sheltered me in the garret through 22...

Nationality : Poland

Religion : Catholic

Fate : Survived

Radyszkiewicz Aniela (Wójcik)

Righteous

Radyszkiewicz, Anna Sokołowska, Maria Sokołowski, Władysław Sokołowski, Wiesław Dubasiewicz-Sokołowska, Krystyna In August 1943, Chana Bitman, who worked as a forced laborer on a German farm, near the town of Włodzimierz Wołyński, in the Volhynia district, managed to establish contact with Anna Aniela Radyszkiewicz, a poor widow, who lived in Włodzimierz Wołyński in a cottage bordering the farm. Radyszkiewicz, who was a devout Catholic, agreed to hide the Bitmans in her cellar, without expecting anything in return. Not long after, the Bitmans together with the Lichtensteins –...

Nationality : Poland

Religion : Roman Catholic

Fate : Survived

Suchorowski Szczepan & Suchorowska Aniela

Righteous

Rajczak, Weronika Suchorowski, Szcepan Suchorowska, Aniela The Mandel family from the town of Staszów (Sandomierz County, Kielce District) was a traditional Jewish family of six – Chaja and Szalom and their four children. During the war, they were joined in their home by Chaja’s sister, Róża Goldflus. They lived in the ghetto of Staszów until it was liquidated in 1942, at which point they moved to a hideout they had prepared in a nearby forest. After hiding there for a while together, they were forced to split up in order to find...

Nationality : Poland

Religion : Catholic

Fate : Survived

Kołtan Aleksander ; Son: Romuald ; Daughter: Karkowska Jadwiga (Kołtan)

Righteous

Kołtan, Aleksander Kołtan, Romuald Karkowska-Kołtan, Jadwiga-Aniela Szmuel Epelbaum was seven in the summer of 1942 when his father brought him, from their village of Konstantynow in the Biala Podlaska district, to his acquaintance Aleksander Kołtan, a widowed and disabled farmer, who lived with his son Romuald and his daughter Jadwiga in the nearby village of Komarno. The Jewish child was warmly received in the Kołtan home, but several weeks later his father decided to take him home again. A month later, Szmuel returned to the Kołtan family, exhausted, hungry and frightened. He told...

Nationality : Poland

Religion : Catholic

Fate : Survived

Rajczak Weronika (Kaczmarczyk)

Righteous

Nationality : Poland

Religion : Catholic

Fate : Survived

Cywiński Feliks

Righteous

Cywiński, Feliks Feliks Cywiński, an engineer by profession and officer in the Polish Air Force, was one of the foremost saviors of Warsaw Jewry during the occupation. Cywiński risked his life to save Jewish fugitives from the Warsaw ghetto and the vicinity, in a completely selfless desire to help his fellow man. Cywiński viewed saving Jews as a Socialist imperative and a civil obligation, and as an integral part of his fight against the enemy. Cywiński saved about 26 Jewish refugees, found them shelter, saw to their needs, fed them, and provided them with “Aryan” documents. When a Jewish woman gave...

Nationality : Poland

Religion : Catholic

Fate : Survived

Sokołowski Władysław & Sokołowska Maria (Wójcik); Son: Wiesław ; Daughter: Dubasiewicz Krystyna (Sokołowska)

Righteous

Nationality : Poland

Religion : Roman Catholic

Fate : Survived

Sanders Antonius & Francisca (Genugten van)

Righteous

Sanders, Antonius Cornelus Sanders-Van Genugten, Francisca Hulsen, Johannes Hulsen-Bollen, Antonia Lucia Samuel Jacob de Haas, his wife Marianne (Ans) née Katan, both in their late twenties, had two children, Jeanette (Janny) de Haas, born in 1937, and Emanuel (Menno) born in 1939. Together with his mother, Jeanette de Haas-van der Giessen, in her sixties, they were the only Jewish family living in the town of Boxtel, in the southern province of North-Brabant, when the Germans invaded the Netherlands in May 1940. As Samuel had a hobby of breeding Bouvier dogs, he made...

Nationality : The Netherlands

Religion : Catholic

Fate : Survived

Varga István

Righteous

Dávid, Erzsébet Varga, István In 1944, Erzsébet Dávid and István Varga were both working at the registry office in Debrecen. Dávid worked as a clerk and Varga as the registrar. Aside from the legal work, which they did, they would also take blank Christian documents, such as Christian birth and marriage certificates, and fill them in for Jews. In so doing, they saved the lives of numerous Jews both in Debrecen and in Budapest. They also gave out about 50 blank baptism certificates to Jews. Among the many Jews that they saved were several members of the Fenyvesi family. Erzsébet Dávid, a deeply...

Nationality : Hungary

Fate : Survived

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