RESCUED SEEKING INFORMATION ABOUT HIS PARENTS
“I was a small child, I just don’t remember anything. It was only when my adoptive parents died that I went to the register office and found out I had been adopted” – explains Jerzy Pietrukaniec.
Jerzy Pietrukaniecgot to know the names of his biological parents only after a few years. He only managed to find out that his father’s name was Otto Goldstein and he was born in Kraków, and that his mother Bronisława Szydłowska came from Niepołomice. They got married in Niepołomice a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War. His father was sent to Auschwitz where he was probably killed and the history of his mother remains unknown.
The current inhabitants of the tenement at 17 Dietla Street, where the parents of Jerzy Pietrukaniec settled after the war, do not remember anything about them. Jerzy Pietrukaniec hopes he will find more information in the city archives, the Red Cross archives of the Yad Vashem Institute. He is asking everyone who knows anything about Otto Goldstein and Bronisława Szydłowska to help him find out more about his biological parents.
Anna and Stanisław Pietrukaniecadopted and rescued Jerzy Pietrukaniec, born in 1941 in the family of Otto and Bronisława Goldstein. In August 1942 Anna and Stanisław Pietrukaniec, a childless couple from Kraków, took him from the ghetto when he was one year old. They baptized him and gave him their name. Since that time they have been his only family.
