Channel of the „Polish Righteous”: new accounts

Maria Zawadzka, 16 November 2016
New accounts have appeared on YouTube, on the channel of the project “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History”. Fragments of the story of Wanda Nelken-Załuska and Aleksandra Sawa née Fołta are now available.

Wanda Nelken-Załuska is a Jew, who helped others while hiding on the so-called “Aryan side”. She was born in Krakow. During the Second World War she did not go to the ghetto, but left to Warsaw, where she started her underground activity under a false name. Wanda Nelken-Załuska had been leading children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, finding hiding places for them and providing them with “Aryan” papers. She managed to survive a round-up. Afterwards, she went back to Krakow and had been hiding until the liberation. After the war, she settled in Warsaw with her husband.

Aleksandra Sawa née Fołta had been saving Jews, but she has not been awarded with the Righteous Among the Nations title. A family of five persons – the neighbors of the Fołtas from before the war – had been hiding in the attic of their stable in Jankowice near Jarosław. On May 25th, 1944 the Nazis carried out a detailed search in the Fołtas house. The Jews and Szymon Fołta were killed on the spot. The rest of the family managed to escape and had been hiding until the end of the war.