REPORT FROM THE RIGHTEOUS' VISIT IN CANADA
During the occupation, Wanda Bulik saved a 17 year old Jewish boy, Tolek Wajsztajn. It was 1941. She found the boy on a train while she was heading to her English lesson. She took him home to Wesoła near Warsaw and announced to her parents that he would be her son. Tolek, today Mati Greenberg, remained with the Bulik family. He survived the War and today lives in Israel.
Wanda Bulik's story under occupation is of particular significance to the "Polish Righteous - Restoring Memory" project. It is especially moving due to both the circumstances under which she helped the Jewish boy, and the mutual fate of both Wanda and Mati Greenberg. Their story is of special importance to us as we were able to document it both from the perspective of the rescuer and the rescued. We interviewed Wanda in 2008 and Mati in 2014. Our interview with Mati Greenberg is available here on Youtube.
We have frequently utilised Wanda's story in publications and in educational material. She has also featured in a virtual exhibition, the title of which was taken from Tolek's dedication to Wanda on a photograph he left with her when he departed Poland in 1946. The exhibition "To dear mother, as a momemento” tells the stories of children rescued from the Holocaust by Polish families.
