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Category: Translation - Polish
Approval Date: 4/21/2024 1:32 PM
Family Surname: Zaczkiewicz
Country: Poland
Town: Tarnow

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This is a description related to the nomination of Bronislaw Zaczkiewicz for the Righteous Among Nation Award for rescuing Lucja, a Jewish girl. They later married and lived in Poland. This is the only record they have of the his story. Would really appreiciate a full translation. Thank you so much!

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4/22/2024 8:07 PM

I am the daughter of Sabina and David FREIREICH born 19.XI.1918 in Tarnow. My parents owned a hotel and restaurant at 3 Brodzinski Street, later at Goldhammer Street. In the first days of the German occupation I found myself in Lvov. After the German army entered Lvov, my parents sent an acquaintance, Bronislaw ZACZKIEWICZ, who brought me to my family home in Tarnów. Since I did not have any documents due to me as a Jew, and at the time the ghetto in Tarnów was being formed, my parents, together with Bronislaw ZACZKIEWICZ, decided that I could be hidden at his house on the Aryan side. And so I was hidden, first in the apartment of his parents at 7 Zielona Street in Tarnow (now Powstańców Warszawy) and when anonymous letters began arriving that a Jewish woman, Bronislawa ZACZKIEWICZ, was hiding in their apartment, he dug a hole in the basement for my further hiding. I stayed in this hiding place from April 1942 to January 1945 (until liberation). During the entire period of my hiding with B. ZACZKIEWICZ, he provided me with food, clothing and medicine. He did this purely out of humanitarian motives and not out of a desire to make a profit, endangering his entire family and above all himself.

During this period he received various anonymous letters (he has them, he managed to keep some of them) from third parties, because they supposed that he was hiding a person of Jewish origin in his apartment. The anonymous letters threatened him and his entire family.

Bronislaw ZACZKIEWICZ, at the risk of his own life, also helped my sister Doni FREIREICH, who was in the (forced labour) camp, in Skarżysko Kamienna at work C. Because he was... (word cut off)

He was a railroad worker, he also helped Jews working on the railroad in Tarnow. I would like to add that, risking his own life, Bronislaw Zaczkiewicz shipped food to the ghetto for those in need. After the liberation I married this

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