Stories of rescue

  Story of rescue

Rescuers

  • Marianna Adasiak-Bartoszewska, matka
    born 1908
  • Irena Adasiak, córka
    born około 1932

Recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations:

    4 June 1989
    • Marianna Adasiak-Bartoszewska
    • Irena Adasiak

Hiding

  • Ester Szaniawska, matka
  • Zygmunt Szaniawski, ojciec
  • Batia Rapaport née Szaniawska, córka
    born 1938

The Adasiak Family

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Story of Rescue - The Adasiak Family

Marianna Adasiak-Bartoszewska spent the Nazi occupation in Ursus (currenly a district of Warsaw) at 24 Wrzosowa Street. In 1942, Marianna’s brother brought to her flat the Szczepański family (pre-war name: Szaniawski) - a Jewish couple with their less than 10-year-old daughter, Basia. Mrs. Marianna hid the family for 1,5 year. When the danger of exposure occurred, Marrianna found a new hiding place at Mrs. Tomalowa Zrębska’s in Ursus, and then at the Kakiets’. The Szczepańskis reached the end of the II World War in a hiding place in Michałowice near Grójec. After the II World War, they settled in Otwock, and then emigrated to Israel. 

Magdalena Leszczyńska, November 2016

Other Stories of Rescue in the Area

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Bibliography

  • Archiwum Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego, 349, 1354
  • Gutman Israel red. nacz., Księga Sprawiedliwych wśród Narodów Świata, Ratujący Żydów podczas Holocaustu
  • Grynberg Michał, Księga Sprawiedliwych

    The lexicon includes the stories of Poles honoured with the title of Righteous Among the Nations in the years 1963-1989. The list of entries is preceded by a preface by Icchak Arad and Chaim CheferThe Righteous of the World.