ECHBERGER-CUKROWICZ, Wiktoria

Before the war Wiktoria was a housemaid caring for the children of the Jewish family Hoffman in Wabrzezno, near Bydgoszcz. During the war she was hired as a school cleaner. In spite of her difficult situation she concealed the Hoffmans in her room and in vacation time in the school, thus saving their lives. After the war she married Cukrowicz and left with him for Israel. See: Grynberg, op. cit.

ECKHARDT, Maria

Ron Csillag, the Staff Reporter for "The Canadian Jewish News" wrote an article that appeared on May 8, 1997, on p. 1, which describes the rally at Earl Bales in Toronto, in the presence of over 1,500 guests. The occasion was the conferring on three Polish Catholic Ontario families of the medals and certificates of "Righteous Among the Nations". As Maria was no more living, it was her son, Constantine Eckhardt who received them from the hands of the Israeli Consul Jehudi Kinar, himself a child survivor. Constantine met for the first time in over 50 years Kalina Kleinberg, the Jewish teen they helped save for four years. The descendants of those saved during the war by the three families, traveled from across Canada and the United States for this emotional reception on a Sunday morning. Several artists: Kate Minsky, Allen Farkas and Francesca David recited poems in English, Yiddish and Hebrew, and the Cantor Louis Danto sang the Kaddish and the Partisan's song. On the photo, also by Ron Csillag, appear: the Consul, Antonin Lesak (q.v.) of London, Irena Leszkowicz (q.v.), Constantine Eckhardt and numerous representatives of Jewish organizations, including the Board of Rabbis. "The Toronto Star" of May 5, 1997, on p. A7 presented a huge photograph of Kalina Kleinberg joining hands with Constantine Eckhardt, now a retired professor at the Ryserson Polytechnic in front of Yad Vashem Monument in Earl Bales Park. Present was also the Canadian Treasury Board President, Art Eggleton.

EGERMAIER, Waclaw
EGERMAIER, Leonia, wife
EILBERG-RUDNICKI, Genowefa see RUDNICKI-EILBERG, G.
EISEN-NOWICKI, Lucja see NOWICKI-EISEN. L.
EITEL, Leon
EJSMOND, Irena
ELIASZ, Jan

ELIASZ, Waclaw (not related)
ELSNER, Jozef

ELSTER, Rozalia

Rozalia lived in Warsaw and took in Franciszek Czupryniak, with his son Bronislaw and daughter Wanda. Rozalia gave Bronislaw the documents of her brother Leon. Thus, he could go to work in Germany and survived. The fate of the rest of the Czupryniak family is unknown. See: Grynberg, op. cit.

EMILIA, Sister, a nun

ENGEL, Alfred (1911-)

Since 1941 Alfred resided in Tarnopol, Galicia, where he was branch-manager of a construction company for which he had worked before in Warsaw. Germans, with the help of Ukrainian nationalists, killed mostly the intelligentsia. According to some sources, in the first eight months of the occupation some 100,000 Jews of that province lost their lives. Alfred helped many of them, hiring them illegally as workers in that company, although they were engineers, physicians and lawyers. Some of them were transported to the "Aryan" side in company cars. One of them, Ignacy Misiewicz, testified that Alfred saved him and his wife Janina on at least three occasions, helping them in the most critical moments. See: Grynberg, op. cit.

ENGEL, Lola (not related)