60 new Righteous' testimonies
Polish Roghteous program of the Museum of The History of Polish Jews has started to implement the exchange of materials regarding the Polish Righteous from the Lublin region with the „Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre in Lublin. The exchange has been made possible by the agreement signed earlier this year between the Directors of the institutions and it concerns audio and video recordings, photographs and texts – among which transcriptions of the Righteous’ relations and summaries of these.
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The materials offered to the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Center have been collected within the framework of the project entitled “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History”, while our partner institution from Lublin has been recording relations of the Righteous, Holocaust Rescuers and Survivors since 2002, when the
"Lights In the Darkness - the Righteous Among the Nations" project was launched.
The Museum has received accounts of more than 60 people – in Polish, and their summaries in English. Most of them have been already published on the www.sprawiedliwi.org.pl website. Sample stories:
- Maciej and Cecylia Brogowski from Belzec, who saved a Jewish girl called Irenka. The story is recounted by the Righteous’ daughter, Mrs. Maria Jurczak
- Bazyli Chmielewski from Tomaszów Lubelski, who saved 12 Jews
- Shlomo Gorzyczanski - a Holocaust Survivor, rescued by the Czechoński family from Tomaszów Lubelski
- Marianna Ostrowska nee Wojtaszko from a village close to Bełżyce (in Lublin county), thanks to whom 12 members of the Fersztman family survived
- Paweł and Wisława Trzciński from Biłgoraj, shot by Germans in March 1943 for hiding Jews; this story has been told by Mrs. Gabriela Gorzandt, the Trzcińskis’ daughter
