Israel: ceremony of awarding medals and honorary diplomas to the Righteous Among the Nations

the official ceremony of awarding medals and honorary diplomas to two Polish heroes, Righteous Among the Nations:

Julia Lisiczyńska and Jan Lisiczyński. Julia saved Henryk and Bolesław Rajber, the sons of her acquaintances, Jews from Włodzimierz – a distillery director and a doctor. The two boys witnessed the shooting of their father, and a few weeks earlier their mother was killed. They managed to escape and, at night, came to the house of the Lisiczyńskis, asking for help. They had been hiding in the attic of their house until the end of the Second World War. Julia Lisiczyńska, who did not tell anyone, even her family, about the hiding of the Jews – brought them food every day. She was very scared, because she also had her own children – Genowefa, Mikołaj and Jerzy. As Genowefa spoke German fluently, the Germans used her as a translator and often visited the house of Julia and Jan Lisiczyński. After the war, Bolesław and Henryk Rajber emigrated to Israel and settled in Afula. After having found Julia Lisiczyńska through the Polish Red Cross, they had been in contact with her until her death.

More information about the Lisiczyńskis can be found in the letter sent by Krystyna Kudiuk to the project “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History”.