Urzykowski Janusz Tadeusz

“I was in a bookstore in 1988.  I noticed this: ‘Diary from the Warsaw Ghetto, October 1940 – January 1943,’ author, Henryk Mak...

Vogelgesang Pelagia

Stanisław (b. 1887) and Pelagia Vogelgesang lived in Węgrów near Warsaw. Pelagia worked as a teacher, and her husband was the s...

Wąchała Olga

Mikołaj and Anna Jaworski lived in Mielnicze, a village along the Stryj River, six kilometers outside the town of Turka (in wha...

Wąchalska Anna

Zymra Kamiński was born in Włocławek, as the only child of Eta and Fajwisz Rawiccy. In December 1939 the family moved to Warsaw...

Wachowiec Marianna

Józef Mironiuk has got an eye for detail. He witnessed the Podlasie Jews being forced to smash tombstones (matzevot) taken from...

Wala Julia

Walaszczyk Józef

During World War II, Józef Walaszczyk employed Jews in Rylsk (Rawa District) and hid Jewish women in Warsaw.

Walczyńska Marianna

Marianna and Józef Walczyński lived in Piekoszew near Kielce together with their children. Józef worked in a tannery in Białogo...

Walczyński Józef

Marianna and Józef Walczyński lived in Piekoszew near Kielce together with their children. Józef worked in a tannery in Białogo...

Walczyszyn Franciszka

Before the war,Franciszka Walczyszyn ran a household in the village of Kraczewnear Zamość. During the occupation, i.e. from Oct...

Walewska Maria

Before the war, she was going to Warsaw to work for Józef and Stefa Rosenzweig – as a nanny she took care of their son, Szmuel ...

Walichowski Eugeniusz

In the summer and fall of 1942 the Nazis were taking Jews from Jodłowa- a town in dębicki county which is today’s podkarpackie ...