Hartabus, Stefan
The members of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) in Wieliczka near Krakow, focused on helping Jewish prisoners working in the local salt mines, and finding hiding places for Jews who had escaped the liquidation of the local ghetto in August 1942. Among the members of Zegota who were operating in the area was Stefan Hartabus, formerly a volunteer firefighter from the nearby village of Krzyszkowice. Hartabus was mainly responsible for finding hiding places for Jewish refugees, in and outside the city. Among those whose lives he saved were the four members of the Aleksandrowicz...
Żurowski, Ludwik
Stopka, Andrzej
Stopka, Wincentyna
Adamski, Jozef
Adamska, Michalina
Adamska, Helena
Adamska Gramatyka Lewartowska, Michalina
Armatys-Przedmolska, Maria
Dr. Julian Aleksandrowicz was the founder of one the hospitals at the Kraków gertto. As the ghetto was being liquidated in March 1943, Dr. Aleksandrowicz and his wife Maria and son Jerzy managed to bribe a few German policemen and find temporary shelter. Shortly afterwards, the Germans traced their whereabouts. When in their despair they attempted suicide, Dr. Ludwik Żurowski came to...
Żurowski, Ludwik
Stopka, Andrzej
Stopka, Wincentyna
Adamski, Jozef
Adamska, Michalina
Adamska, Helena
Adamska Gramatyka Lewartowska, Michalina
Armatys-Przedmolska, Maria
Dr. Julian Aleksandrowicz was the founder of one the hospitals at the Kraków gertto. As the ghetto was being liquidated in March 1943, Dr. Aleksandrowicz and his wife Maria and son Jerzy managed to bribe a few German policemen and find temporary shelter. Shortly afterwards, the Germans traced their whereabouts. When in their despair they attempted suicide, Dr. Ludwik Żurowski came to...
Żurowski, Ludwik
Stopka, Andrzej
Stopka, Wincentyna
Adamski, Jozef
Adamska, Michalina
Adamska, Helena
Adamska Gramatyka Lewartowska, Michalina
Armatys-Przedmolska, Maria
Dr. Julian Aleksandrowicz was the founder of one the hospitals at the Kraków gertto. As the ghetto was being liquidated in March 1943, Dr. Aleksandrowicz and his wife Maria and son Jerzy managed to bribe a few German policemen and find temporary shelter. Shortly afterwards, the Germans traced their whereabouts. When in their despair they attempted suicide, Dr. Ludwik Żurowski came to...
Żurowski, Ludwik
Stopka, Andrzej
Stopka, Wincentyna
Adamski, Jozef
Adamska, Michalina
Adamska, Helena
Adamska Gramatyka Lewartowska, Michalina
Armatys-Przedmolska, Maria
Dr. Julian Aleksandrowicz was the founder of one the hospitals at the Kraków gertto. As the ghetto was being liquidated in March 1943, Dr. Aleksandrowicz and his wife Maria and son Jerzy managed to bribe a few German policemen and find temporary shelter. Shortly afterwards, the Germans traced their whereabouts. When in their despair they attempted suicide, Dr. Ludwik Żurowski came to...
Jedynak, Józef
Dymek-Jedynak, Wanda
Panuszko-Jedynak, Józefa
Bobrowski, Mieczysław
Bobrowska, Maria
Józef Jedynak, who lived in the town of Wieliczka near Krakow, was a PPS (Polish Socialist Party) activist. Jedynak, and his daughters, Wanda, and Józefa, were well-known “addresses” for local Jews seeking help or shelter after fleeing from the Germans. As activists for Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews), Jedynak and his daughters found accommodations for Jews, provided them with forged documents, and distributed financial support among the needy. His commanding appearance...
Kamiński, Stefan
After her mother's death in 1942, 11-year-old Felicja Seifert was smuggled out of the ghetto to the Aryan side of Kraków. Felicja's father, who lived under an assumed identity outside the Kraków ghetto, arranged this daring operation. Felicja was sent to a farm in the village of Wawrzeńczyce in the county of Miechów, near Kraków, where, together with another Jewish couple, she stayed for about a year. One day, the Germans raided the farm and arrested the farm owners and the Jewish couple. Felicja managed to escape and ran to the private tutor the farm owners had hired for...
Jedynak, Józef
Dymek-Jedynak, Wanda
Panuszko-Jedynak, Józefa
Bobrowski, Mieczysław
Bobrowska, Maria
Józef Jedynak, who lived in the town of Wieliczka near Krakow, was a PPS (Polish Socialist Party) activist. Jedynak, and his daughters, Wanda, and Józefa, were well-known “addresses” for local Jews seeking help or shelter after fleeing from the Germans. As activists for Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews), Jedynak and his daughters found accommodations for Jews, provided them with forged documents, and distributed financial support among the needy. His commanding appearance...