With her sister, Aleksandra Dochmacka came to Pinsk (today's Belarus), where she worked as a cook. After marrying, she lived in a house on ul. Karmelicka, which belonged to the wealthy Jewish Schejnberg family.
During the occupation, she hid the owner's son, Marek Schejnberg, his daughter-in-law Miriam Schejnberg and granddaughter Regina, as well as a Jewish partisan, Sioma Jeliński.
Jews turned to Aleksandra Dochmacka for help in October 1942, when deportations to the extermination camp were already underway in the ghetto. Marek Schejnberg escaped after losing his wife and child. At night, he came to the yard of his father's house and asked to be hidden.
Soon, Miriam Schejnberg appeared on the farm with her eight-year-old daughter. “The dogs in the house began barking. My sister looked out the window and opened the door. My mother was shaking with fear. This woman could have brought death to all of us, but my mother let her in", recalls Zofia Bain, the younger of Aleksandra Dochmacka's daughters.
Sioma Jasiński came next.
Aleksandra and her older daughter Janina took care of the needs of the hidden Jews, who did not leave the shelter in the basement. They all were not discovered by the German inspection and survived until the end of the War.
