Katarzyna and Jan Czerewaniów lived in Dubno, in the Wołyn district, at ul. Panieńska 4.
When, in 1941, the town was in the hands of the Nazis, almost immediately, they began murdering the Jewish population of the small town and, in April 1942, they established a ghetto. In operations lasting from May to October of that year, they finally exterminated the remaining Jews.
A short time prior to the liquidation of the ghetto, friends of the Czerewaniów family, Wiktor and Fania Goldsztein, brought to them their six-month-old daughter, Halina, asking that they save her.
Katarzyna and Jan, who were childless, took the little girl and adopted her. However, someone denounced Katarzyna and, at the end of that year, the Ukrainian police arrested her for sheltering a Jewish child. The woman defended herself, claiming that she had taken in her husband's extra-marital daughter, whose mother had abandoned her.
In 1943, the Czerewaniów couple, with the child, reached Przemyśł and remained there until the end of the War. Later, they moved to Wrocław. Halina remained with them. Katarzyna and Jan cared for her as though she was their own child.
