He was a friend of Dr. Janusz Korczak, co-editor with him of the "Maly Przeglad", a supplement to the Jewish daily "Nasz Przeglad" (1929-39). He helped Korczak and his Orphanage. He harbored several colleagues from that newspaper, among them Kuba Hersztein and Renia of unknown name. Lejzor Czarnobroda, who escaped from the train to Treblinka and broke his leg, was transported by Igor to Warsaw and placed by him with his friends in the countryside. Unfortunately he was later arrested and never seen again. Igor was also arrested at the beginning of 1943 and went through Pawiak (a notoriously harsh prison in Warsaw) Majdanek, Auschwitz and Oranienburg. He was liberated at Bergen-Belsen. See: Grynberg, Michal: "Ksiega Sprawiedliwych" (Book of the Righteous) Warsaw, PWN, 1993. (ill., ports., 766 pp.)

ABRAMOWA-MANDEL, Tatiana (not related)
ABRAMOWA's daughter, Halina Zambrzuski

ABRAMOWICZ, Franciszka (1899-1990)

She harbored in her home at Miedzyrzec Podlaski a Jew, Sender Dyszel. When neighbors threatened him, he hid in the forest. She brought him food there until he could return to her later. After 1947 he emigrated to Argentina. See Grynberg, op. cit.

ABRAMOWICZ, Józef
ABRAMOWICZ, Janina, wife
ABRAMOWICZ-WOLSKI, Maryla (not related) see WOLSKI, Feliks, husband
ABRAMOWICZ, Natalia
ADAMCZEWSKI, Franciszka see KAMINSKI Zbigniew, husband
ADAMCZUK, Antoni
ADAMCZUK, Janina, wife
ADAMCZYK, Jan
ADAMCZYK, Marianna, wife
ADAMCZYK, Helena, daughter
ADAMCZYK, Jacek, son
ADAMCZYK, Jadwiga, daughter
ADAMCZYK, Lucianna, daughter

ADAMCZYK-GWIAZDOWSKI, Janina

ADAMCZYK, Szymon
ADAMCZYK, Weronika, wife
ADAMCZYK, Boleslaw, son
ADAMCZYK, Józef, son

ADAMCZYK, Wanda; see MILCZANOWSKI, Anna, mother
ADAMECZEK, Stanislaw
ADAMECZEK, Feliksa, wife
ADAMEK, Malgorzata
ADAMKOWSKI, Maria

ADAMOWICZ, Irena,

Born in 1910 to a noble family, senior girl scout, she co-operated with Arie Wilner. She became a courier between the ghettos of Warsaw, Vilna, Kaunas, Shavle, Bialystok and other cities. Her reminiscences were published in the book by: Bartoszewski & Lewin, eds. "Righteous Among Nations; How Poles Helped the Hews, 1939-1945. London, Earlscourt Publ. Ltd, 1969. (lxxxvii, 834 pp.)

ADAMOWICZ, Jan
ADAMOWICZ, Maria, wife
ADAMOWICZ, Antonina, daughter
ADAMOWICZ, Eugenia, daughter
ADAMOWICZ, Janina, daughter
ADAMOWICZ, Jozef, son
ADAMOWICZ, Stanislawa, daughter

ADAMSKI, Jozef; a bricklayer
ADAMSKI, Michalina, wife
ADAMSKI, Helena, adopted daughter

Jozef was a friend of Dr. Julian Aleksandrowicz, of Jewish descent, a scholar of world renown on leukemia. The professor tells us that in 1943, in Cracow, Jozef, then a man of 60, came each day for a number of weeks, to the gate of the prison where the doctor's father worked, and threw him a package of food, clothing or newspapers. Spotted by a guard, he was beaten terribly and died soon after. See: Bartoszewski & Lewin, op. cit.

ADAMUS-KREPEC, Irena, see KREPEC, Jerzy, husband
ADASIAK-BARTOSZEWSKI, Marianna
ADASIAK-LESZEK, Irena, daughter

Kept in their house during a year and a half the couple Szaniawski with their small daughter. Faced with the danger of denunciation by neighbors she organized for the three a hiding place. First it was at Mrs. Tomal-Zrebski and then in the family of Kakiet at Ursus near Warsaw. Szaniawski, a dentist, emigrated from Otwock with his family to Israel. See: Grynberg, op. cit.

ADOLF, Krystyna
AJDELS-PAWLOWSKI, Wanda, see PAWLOWSKI-AJDELS, W.
ALOSZKO, Wincenty
ALOSZKO, Paulina, wife
ALOSZKO, Alfred, son
ALOSZKO, Jozef, son
AMBROZIAK, Ignacy
AMBROZIAK, Rozalia, wife
AMBROZIEWICZ, Julian
ANDZELM, Stefan
ANDZELM, Waleria, wife
ANDZELM, Maria, daughter

ANISZKIEWICZ (ANISKIEWICZ ?) Celina

Celina was a peasant widow with three small children. She gave a hiding place in her barn to the Slavins, a family of four. Even when the Germans searched for partisans a house nearby, she did not send them away but kept them till the war's end. See p. 140 in: Riwash, Joseph: "Resistance and Revenge, 1939-1949" [Town of Mount Royal, Que., Can. c1981] (ill. 159 pp.). Photographs of Celina and of her family as well as one of the Slavin family appear in that book. Celina Aniszkiewicz, mentioned on the 1991 list coming from Yad Vashem, disappeared from it later. The case was started in 1986. The following five Aniszkiewiczes were still on the list of 1994, but do not figure on its list of 1999.

ANISZKIEWICZ, Lucjan
ANISZKIEWICZ, Anna, wife
ANISZKIEWICZ, Eugenia, daughter
ANISZKIEWICZ, Lidia, daughter
ANISZKIEWICZ, Wera, daughter

ANTONOWICZ, Wincenty
ANTONOWICZ, Jadwiga, wife
ANTONOWICZ-BAUER, Lucyna, daughter

Wincenty, Jadwiga and Lucyna hid Jews several times in their house in Vilna (now in Lithuania). They provided them with food and transported them to safer places in the countryside. Lucyna received the medal on Jan 14, 1999 in Warsaw; her parents got their medal earlier.

ANTOSIEWICZ, Feliks
ANTOSIEWICZ, Wiktoria, wife

APOLLOW, Konstanty (1902-1989), attorney
APOLLOW, Jadwiga, wife

Konstanty and Jadwiga gave refuge in their home in Warsaw to Anna Neuding, mother of Jerzy Jerzy was an activist of the Polish socialist Party in the ghetto, and one of the editors of "Ghetto Walczy" (The Ghetto fights). Anna did not have any documents, which was a particularly dangerous situation. See: Grynberg, op. cit.

ARCZYNSKI, Marek, alias "MAREK" or "LUKOWSKI") alias of Ferdynand Arczynski
"Marek" was one of the founding members of Zegota. It was the name of the Rada Pomocy Zydom , i.e. Council for Aid to Jews, formed on Dec. 4, 1942 in Warsaw, by representatives of Polish and Jewish political parties, the only such organization in occupied Europe. It operated mostly with funds provided by the Polish Government in Exile in London and later by some Jewish organizations abroad. It had branches in several Polish cities. "Marek" was its treasurer and head of its legalization bureau. That bureau everyday produced hundreds of false identification documents, work cards, service attestations, Catholic baptismal or marriage certificates, etc. which were distributed without cost to Jews who managed to avoid the ghetto or who escaped from it. Zegota took care of 4,000 Jews out of 20,000 who were hiding on the "Aryan" side in Warsaw alone. It provided Jews also with places of shelter, medical attention, monthly disbursements of money. It smuggled food and clothing to Jews into concentration camps. It insisted on deciding and executing of death sentences by the AK of people who blackmailed or denounced Jews. "Marek" had an important role in founding its Cracow and its Lvov branches. See: Wronski, Stanislaw & Zwolakowa, Maria: "Polacy Zydzi, 1939-1945". Warszawa, Ksiazka i Wiedza, 1971. (ill., 462 pp.). It includes copies of many original documents.

ARCZYNSKI-REWKOWSKI, Maria (not rel.) see REWKOWSKI, Zygmunt, husband
ARMATYS, Jozef
ARMATYS, Agata, wife

ARMATYS-PRZEDMOLSKI, Maria

Maria gave her identity papers to the wife of Dr. Julian Aleksandrowicz and took him into her home with his wife and their 7 years old son. They had succeeded to escape through the sewers from the Cracow ghetto on March 13, 1943. See: Bartoszewski & Lewin, op. cit.

ARTYMIAK, Mikolaj
ARTYMIAK, Helena, wife
ARTYMIAK, Eugenia, daughter
ARVANITTI, Jerzy
ARVANITTI, Helena, wife
ASSANOWICZ, Maria

AUGUSTOWSKI-RYBOWICZ, Kazimiera

Kazimiera, a resident of Wilkowo, near Grojec, befriended a Jewish girl, Hania. In February 1941 during the deportation of Jews from Grojec to the Warsaw ghetto, Kazimiera gave Hania her birth certificate, which enabled her to go to Germany for work as a Pole. Hania visited Kazimiera in 1986. See: Grynberg, op. cit.

AUGUSTYNEK-FRITZ, Bronislawa see FRITZ, Wit & Maria, parents
AUGUSTYNIAK, Erazm
AUGUSTYNIAK, Kazimiera, wife
AUGUSTYNIAK-NIEDOPYTALSKI, Helena, daughter
AUGUSTYNIAK-MOTYLEWSKI, Janina
AVNI-WIECZOREK, Zofia Marta see WIECZOREK, Aleksandra, mother