Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
152 (1999) 176-185
Keywords:
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Relates the history of several Polish families in Tykocin who sheltered some twelve Jewish fugitives from nearby Kolno in 1941. The Jews were discovered and deported to the Białystok ghetto; all of the Sadowski family, who had hidden six of them, were executed. Two of the Jews, Pejsach Zdrojewicz and his wife, escaped from Białystok and returned to Tykocin; they were taken in by the Chwiesinski family. Although all the neighbors knew about the hidden Jews, they did not betray them. But at war's end, after the Soviet takeover, when the Polish population identified Jews with the hated communists, life in Tykocin became dangerous for both Pejsach and his rescuers, and they had to leave town.
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