The Polish Righteous in 2019
“What can I say to thank people for such a sacrifice and for the risk they took? My father and his family owe them their lives, as do I, my brother, my cousins, my children, my brother’s children and my cousins’ children. The words ’Thank You’ are inadequate to express the gratitude which we all owe them. […] Today, I know that the world needs more people like Mikołaj and Katarzyna Pernat”.
– Jack Salzman, son of a Holocaust Survivor, during a RIghteous ceremony in Kraków, on 28th June 2019.
We are constantly adding, to our website, stories of Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. In 2019, we added more content prepared by Holocaust researchers, supplemented with archival material and contemporary photographs donated to POLIN Museum collection by the Righteous and by Survivors. We have also included oral history interviews, with witnesses to history, conducted in Poland and in Israel. Below, we present a summary listing of the past year.
Twelve Months of Polish Righteous – Read some selected stories
We have selected twelve of the most interest stories published on the Polish Righteous Portal during 2019:
- January: 90th birthday of Janina Goldhar – Holocaust Suvivor and POLIN Museum volunteer
- February: 90th birthday of Anna Bando – President of the Polish Association of the Righteous Among the Nations
- March: Righteous Gala event at POLIN Museum
- April: Additional wok on the stories of Andrzej and Czesław Miłosz of Vilna and Warsaw
- May: The story of the Witkowski family of Milanówek
- June: An interview with Stefan Galas about hiding Jews in Strzeniówka near Nadarzyn
- July: The story of Stanisław Jasik of Warsaw
- August: A meeting of Jakub Berkman, a Holocaust Survivor, with the descendants of whom he saved in Suchedniów
- September: The exhibition “Between Life and Death” on display in Bucharest
- October: The story of the Janc family of Warszaw
- November: 100th birthday of Józef Walaszczyk – the oldest Pole honoured with the title of Righteous
- December: Fifteen new stories of the RIghteous and Holocaust Survivors from POLIN Museum’s oral history collection
2019 Righteous Ceremonies
Over the past twelve months, more ceremonies were held, during which twenty-seven Polish men and twenty Polish women were honoured with the title of Righteous Among the Nations – the highetst civil decoration awarded by the State of Israel.
Among them, fifteen helped Jews in, what is today, the Mazowiecki Province, eight in the Podkarpacki Province, five in the Małopolski Province, two in the Lubelski Province, two in the Łódzki Province, two in the Podlaski Province, one in the Śląsk Province, six in Ukraine (five in the Ternopil Oblast, one in Lviv), four in Belarus (Novgorof region) and two in Lithuania (Vilnius district). According to available source materials, around fifty-nine Jews were extended help, however their exact number is difficult to determine.
See reports about ceremonies honouring the RIghteous:
- 27th May in the Łazienki Palace in Warsaw
- 28th June in the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków
- 29th August on the grounds of the Radegast Station in Łódź
The 2019 Polish Righteous
Read the stories of the Righteous Among the Nations:
- Franciszek Blaszko
- Regina Blaszko
- Stanisław Borowski
- Helena Borowska
- Krystyna Bryk
- Józef Budyński
- Anna Budyńska
- Jan Burbutowski
- Maria Burbutowska
- Irena Dźwigaj
- Stanisław Ferenc
- Tekla Ferenc
- Kazimierz Gałecki
- Anna Gałecka
- Maria Gelles
- Karol Gialbas
- Friedrich Heckermann
- Danuta Heckermann
- Józef Izdebski
- Helena Jacewicz
- Czesław Jacewicz
- Ela Jacewicz
- Jadwiga Jacewicz
- Anna Kaczorowska
- Albina Karłowicz
- Władysław Karłowicz
- Jakub Krajewski
- Janina Krajewska
- Antoni Maliszewski
- Matylda Maliszewska
- Maria Maliszewska
- Mikołaj Pernat
- Katarzyna Pernat
- Tadeusz Pliś
- Bronisława Pliś
- Aniela Roland
- Kazimierz Słupski
- Szczepan Marian Stankiewicz
- Danuta Szuro
- Wincenty Tomaszewicz
- Zofia Tomaszewicz
- Jan Uliasz
- Józefa Uliasz
- Władysława Wrażeń
- Józef Wysmulski
- Zofia Wysmulska
- Maria Zborowska
Information about the awarding of the title of Righteous Among the Nations, by the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem, can be found on our website: Yad Vashem Criteria.
» See: Summary of the 2018 year
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