Posted on 01/09/2024 3:52:38 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1945, Polish Gentile Karolina Juszczykowska was executed at the prison in Frankfurt am Main for her attempt to save two Jewish men in Tomaschow, Poland, the previous year. She was 46 years old.
The people she tried to rescue have never been identified; only their first names, Paul and Janek, are known. According to Karolina, she met them on the street and they offered her 300 zloty a week to hide them. She kept them in her home and locked them inside when she went off to work during the day; they slept on the floor at night.
The arrangement lasted only about six weeks before they were betrayed.
The Gestapo raided Karolina’s home on July 23, 1944 and found Janek and Paul hiding in the cellar. Karolina was arrested and the two men were summarily executed....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Murdered. Flat out murdered.
Nazi bastards.
It would be good to know what became of her murderers, and of the betrayer, if they were ever identified.
I wonder who betrayed them all....we’ll never know, certainly not at this point. RIP.
May they All enjoy heaven together.
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