This is a list of families and individuals recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for rendering rescue and assistance to Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust in Poland. , there are men and women recognized as Polish Righteous Among the Nations, over a quarter of the recognized by Yad Vashem in total.
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Irena Adamowicz: a courier for the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa) who provided information to a number of Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland. In 1985, Adamowicz was posthumously bestowed the title of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Antonowicz family (Wincenty Antonowicz along with his wife Jadwiga and teenage daughter Lucyna Antonowicz-Bauer) sheltered the 20-year-old Jewish woman Bronisława Malberg in their house after the liquidation of the Wilno Ghetto during the Nazi German occupation of Poland in World War II, as well as two other Jewish families including Henia and Adi Kulgan. Wincenty and his wife Jadwiga were posthumously bestowed the titles of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on June 14, 1998. Ferdynand Arczyński: one of the founding members of an underground organization Żegota (Council for Aid to Jews) in German-occupied Poland. Arczyński worked tirelessly for Żegota, serving not only as treasurer but also as head of its "legalization" department, which produced forged documents distributed to Jews. He also acted as a liaison with branches of Żegota. In 1965, Arczynski visited Israel, where on May 18, 1965, Yad Vashem recognized him as Righteous Among the Nations.
B Banasiewicz family: The family of Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz with sons: Jerzy, Tadeusz, Antoni, and daughter Maria lived on a farm in Orzechowce near Przemyśl during the Nazi German occupation of Poland in World War II. In July 1991 they were bestowed the titles of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem for rescuing fifteen Jews escaping the Holocaust from the ghetto in Przemyśl. Zofia Baniecka was a Polish member of the Resistance during World War II. In addition to relaying guns and other materials to resistance fighters, Baniecka and her mother sheltered over 50 Jews in their home between 1941 and 1944. She was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, posthumously, in 2016. Władysław Bartoszewski from 1942 was active in the Provisional Committee for Aid to Jews and its successor organization, the Council for Aid to Jews (codenamed Żegota). After the war, he contributed to the strengthening of Polish-Israeli ties. Jerzy Bielecki was one of the few inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp who managed to escape the camp successfully, a feat he did while saving his Jewish girlfriend. Bilecki family, including Julian Bilecki, saved about 20 Jews from Pidhaitsi Ghetto who sought refuge at their farm Andrzej Bogucki and wife Janina sheltered Jewish composer Władysław Szpilman. : After the liquidation of the Sambor Ghetto, Władysław Bońkowski, a restaurant manager at the Sambor train station, offered shelter to a group of sixteen Jews who escaped from the ghetto, and successfully hid them throughout the remainder of the war. Bońkowski was recognised as Righteous in 1967. Anna Borkowska saved 17 young Jewish Zionists in her Vilna convent.Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority 2008, The Righteous: Anna Borkowska, Poland Szczepan Bradło and family saved three Jewish families of 13 in a dugout Cecylia and Maciej Brogowski sheltered a Jewish girl named Irena Sznycer in their village Janina Bukolska: Assisted with falsifying birth records and documents, as well as coordinating hiding locations for Jews in Warsaw. Maria Burdowa: During the German occupation of Poland, Maria Burdowa, a Polish flower seller from Jaworów, sheltered the Jewish siblings Eva (later Chava) and Marian (later Moshe) Klarfeld from Lwów. In April 1942, as anti-Jewish persecution intensified, their parents Salia and Richard Klarfeld entrusted the children to Burdowa, who continued to care for the one-year-old Marian and four-year-old Eva after their parents were murdered. Brust family: Four members of the Brust family in Czestochowa provided assistance and shelter for a number of Jewish refugees. One of them was murdered by Gestapo; the other three survived and received the Righteous award in 1979. Henryk Buszko: Buszko (age 30) farming near Białystok, rescued Jews who escaped from the Holocaust train heading from the Białystok Ghetto for the Treblinka extermination camp on 21 September 1943. Buszko was caught by the German gendarmerie arriving at Liza Stara from Pietkowo, and murdered for hiding Jews.
C Zofia Celińska with parents sheltered several Jews, including . Edward Chacza: Chacza, a miner living in Baranavichy, Belarus, helped Jews escape the Baranavichy Ghetto into the surrounding forests where they made contact with Jewish partisans. He also provided medical care and food. Chacza was arrested in November 1943 but survived the war. Krystyna Cywińska: Krystyna Cywińska who lived in Grodno with two children was killed in 1943 for saving Jews. She was arrested after one of the Jewish girls at her home, Bella Ilin, went with her daughter Danuta Cywińska back to the Grodno Ghetto to rescue Bella's mother and brother. Bella (now Shulman) and Danuta were unsuccessful, but lived. Danuta rescued five other Jews soon thereafter. Marcin Czyżykowski: Czyżykowski, a Home Army member, brought in food and medicine into the Białystok Ghetto and on the way back took Jewish children to his and his wife Maria's home (up to twelve of them would wait there at a time, for placement with Polish families).
D Krystyna Dańko, hid and supplied a Jewish family of four with food, clothing and money.The Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Dańko Krystyna (Chłond) Jan Dobraczyński, placed several hundred Jewish children in Catholic convents.The Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Dobraczyński Jan Antoni Docha, with wife Janina and neighbours: Polish medical doctor Antoni Docha was asked by his prewar colleague Chaim Blumstein to help him and his family escape from the Grodno Ghetto. Docha bribed a Polish driver of a big German truck and went to the ghetto along with him. They put a dozen Jews under the rags and tarpaulin including Blumstein and Broide families and successfully crossed several German checkpoints. The driver finally broke down and asked Docha along with everybody else to get out of the lorry. They reached Docha's house in Indura on foot. Antoni Docha and his wife Janina took in more Jews as the time went on. All survived. Many kept corresponding after the war. Jadwiga Dudziec, teacher and scout activist in Vilnius, member of the Home Army, helped Jewish partisans.
F Maria Fedecka saved 12 members of close Jewish families in WilnoThe Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Fedecka Maria (Krzywiec) Mieczysław Fogg hid a Jewish family in his apartment till the end of World War IIThe Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Fogg Mieczyslaw
G Andrzej Garbuliński, his two sons and neighbour Stanisław Owca. Except one of the sons, the others were killed for sheltering Alfenbeins family, who also perished.The Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Garbuliński Andrzej; Son: Marian; Son: Władysław Antoni Gawryłkiewicz, saved three Jewish families consisting of 16 membersThe Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Gawryłkiewicz Antoni Tadeusz Gebethner: Polish officer with the Home Army who from 1942 sheltered a Jewish family in his home in Warsaw during German occupation. He died as a prisoner of war in Germany at Stalag-XIA from wounds he had received during summer of the same year in the Warsaw Uprising on 14 October 1944.The Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Gebethner Tadeusz Matylda Getter, hid at least 40 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Polish orphanagesThe Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Getter Matylda Zofia Olszakowska-Glazer saved Cypora Zonszajn with her baby from the Siedlce Ghetto before massacreCypora (Jablon) Zonszajn in Siedlce, Poland. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.The Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Glazer Zofia (Olszakowska) Marceli Godlewski was a Polish Roman Catholic priest who helped dozens of Jewish converts in his parish in the Warsaw Ghetto.The Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Godlewski Marceli Andrzeja (Maria) Górska was a Polish Roman Catholic nun involved in the protection of Jewish children.The Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Górska Maria Julian Grobelny (President of Żegota) with wife Halina, rescued a large number of Jews, mostly childrenThe Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Grobelny Julian & Halina Irena Gut Opdyke, rescued sixteen Jews while working in a laundy center at Tarnopol GhettoThe Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Gut Opdyke Irena Gutowska family: Wanda Lesisz, also Wanda Gutowska-Lesisz: a Polish resistance fighter, her mother (Leonia Gutowska) and sister (Janina Różecka-Gutowska) aided several Jews
I Bolesław Idzikowski: Bolesław Idzikowski used to bring food to his many acquaintances in the Kielce Ghetto, and personally extricated over a dozen Jews from the ghetto by risking his own life. He saved Estera Jurkowski and her two brothers along with Mr Lapa, his wife, and their four-year-old daughter, as well as the Ksawer couple, and the family of Maciej Rusinek (false name from the Kennkarte), his wife, and their six-year-old daughter. Idzikowski, the Polish Righteous, used to secretly depart from Kielce with the Jews he had rescued, and placed them with his Polish friends elsewhere. Most of them survived the war.The Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Idzikowski Bolesław Henryk Iwański, an officer from Home Army (AK), and his wife Wiktoria provided arms and military support for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and hid Jewish fugitives. Iwański himself fought alongside the Jews in the Uprising.The Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Iwański Henryk & Iwańska Wiktoria Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and his wife Anna Iwaszkiewicz, writers and translators, sheltered several Jewish families and associates at their family villa.The Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Iwaszkiewicz Anna; Husband: Jarosław
J Stefan Jagodziński, resistance member, saved Dr. Tenenwurzel's family of threeThe Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Jagodziński Stefan Stanisław Jasiński and daughter Emilia hid four Jews who escaped the Volhynian massacresThe Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Jasiński Stanisław; Daughter: Słodkowska Emilia (Jasińska) Karolina Juszczykowska was a Polish house worker who was executed for hiding two JewsThe Righteous Among the Nations Database at Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, The Righteous: Juszczykowska Karolina
K Jan Kaliszczuk: Kaliszczuk sheltered two Jewish partisans at his home, Judel Pitluk and Aron Lach, and after the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto, supplied them with food and medicine and drove them to the forest. Both survived.