Six Poles received Medals Righteous Among the Nations … – Television Republic

Three marriage, which during World War II to rescue Jews, were on Monday in Gliwice receive medals Righteous Among the Nations. These titles were given characters from Lviv and Ternopil, who after the war settled in Upper Silesia.

During Monday’s ceremony at the Gliwice Music Theatre received a medal and a diploma Sophia Hübner, who along with her husband rescued Alferedem include Prefer a Jewish girl Rachel. In December 1942. Hübnerowie, living with a six-month-old daughter Eve in Lviv, adopted under your roof from an unknown woman raised with in the ghetto 4-year-old Jewish girl.

The child has received, among others, new identity – the adoptive parents named her Louis Volyn (from mother’s maiden name Sophia Hübner). After the war he went to Israel Ludek, losing contact with Hübnerami – now called the Lea Simchai. Foster sisters Eva and Ludek sought for years afterwards.

– This chain of wonderful, good people, a year ago we found the up and once again create a family – spoke to journalists on Monday, daughter of the Hübnerowa.

In June 1942. Zofia Hübner was also from the Krakow ghetto and transported to Lviv, to his parents Catherine and John Witzów small Arno Haan – now living in the United States, the well-known violinist prof. Adam Han-Gorski. The late state Witzowie were awarded medals of Righteous Among the Nations in 2012.

For the rest, now dead honored, awards Monday deprive their children. Irene and Marian Kralowie during the war took care of two Jewish girls. Mature Wanda Kremer, after the war, emigrated to Israel. The younger, Lucia Kral-Cieslak from home Heller, remained in the family, and at this that it is not by birth a daughter of Irene and Marian Kralove, learned as an adult.

The two rescued women are no longer alive. A request for honoring their husband Lucia occurred Kral-Cieslak, who lives in Gliwice Joseph Cieslak. Distinction received the daughter of the Kraľovany Jolanta Kolińska and son Zygmunt Kral.

Recipients were on Monday also Julia and Kazimierz Zięcikowie who in 1943-44 on his farm on the outskirts of the thirteen Ternopil hiding a group of Jewish refugees from the ghetto. Prepared for them two underground hiding place – at home hid four people in the stable – nine consecutive.

Diploma and medal of the Righteous picked up their son, who lives in Bytom 88-year-old Joseph Zięcik. – It is honor for the effort and risk of loss of life. If it is discovered during the occupation during storage of these people, he would have us be. It would not be our family, which at the moment, as it counted, counts more than 50 people – told reporters Zięcik.

Decisions to award state Hübnerowa, Zięcików Kralove and a special committee of the Institute of National Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem has taken 2013. Gliwice ceremony was attended by representatives of the Embassy of Israel, president of the city Zygmunt Frankiewicz, as well as more than 300 students Gliwice schools.

Kill Righteous among the Nations is awarded since 1963. honored are the people who selflessly of humanitarian motives expose their lives to save doomed Jews. Persons recognized as Righteous receive a specially minted medal with your name and an honorary diploma. Their names are engraved on stone tablets in the Garden of the Righteous in Jerusalem.

So far, the medal was awarded almost 25 thousand. people from 47 countries, including nearly 6.5 thousand. Poles. Righteous diplomas and medals will be presented at ceremonies in Israel or in Israeli diplomatic missions around the world. Embassy of Israel in Poland organizes a dozen such events annually.