Ceremony of awarding medals and honorary diplomas “Righteous Among the Nations”

On Monday, June 14th, 2010 in Warsaw, the Embassy of Israel to Poland organized

the official ceremony of awarding medals and honorary diplomas
“Righteous Among the Nations”

to eighteen Polish Heroes who selflessly helped persecuted Jews:

Stanisława and Flawian Boczkowski, their children, Józef Boczkowski, Zygmunt Boczkowski and Helena Sapierzyńska, who for three years had been hiding Dawid Grynholc and his son Aron, inhabitants of Wilno in a shelter under their house in Krzeczowce near Raków (currently in Ukraine);

Stanisław Bończa-Tomaszewski, who during the Second World War helped many Jews escape from the Warsaw ghetto, providing them with false papers. He saved, among others, the famous philanthropist Tadeusz Plucer-Sarna and his children;

Maria and Stanisław Dudek, who took care of a small Jewish girl Zirl Einstein-Beer for five years in their house in the village Odrzykoń located in the Podkarpackie province;

Rev. Marceli Godlewski, priest of the All Saints’ parish at the Grzybowski Square in Warsaw, who helped many people escape from the ghetto and saved, among others, Ludwik Hirszfeld and the family of Ludwik Zamenhoff;

Janina and Zygmunt Kobos, who had been hiding in their house in Falenica Mordechaj Frydman and thirteen-year-old Israel Cymlich, fugitive from the local ghetto and Treblinka camp;

Scoutmaster Jadwiga Luśniak, who during the Nazi occupation saved, among others, Tomasz Prot, currently vice-chairman of the Association of “Children of the Holocaust” in Poland and his mother;

Wincenty Maciejewski and his son Adolf Maciejewski, who since 1942 had been hiding in shelters under their house in the village Huta Józefów the brothers Jakub and Dumin Seidman and helped rescue Tauba and Yehiel Aizencang;

Maria Mussil, her son Mieczysław Mussil and Irena Ulanowska-Mussil, who had been hiding fourteen Jews in their apartment in the Żoliborz district in Warsaw and saved, among others, seventeen-year-old Renata Lubińska née Preczep;

Rev. Adam Skałbania, who – risking his life – took in two Jewish boys, who became students of his boys school in Głosków near Piaseczno.