When Marta Karbowska left her home in Warsaw to go shopping in October 1942, no one expected her to return with a 13-year-old Jewish boy who was threatened with death at the hands of the German occupier. Despite there being a decree on the death penalty for Poles helping Jews in German-occupied Poland, the Karbowskis still saved the teenager.<\/b><\/p>\n
They lived in Warsaw on Lwowska Street – near the Warsaw University of Technology, where J\u00f3zef Karbowski worked as the main electrician. His wife, Marta, looked after the house. The Karbowski family had four children: three sons Stefan, Czes\u0142aw and Jan, and a daughter: Zofia.<\/p>\n
She just went shopping<\/b><\/p>\n
As Zofia Szo\u0142och n\u00e9e Karbowska recollects, when her mother went out shopping in October 1942, someone persuaded her to take a 13-year-old boy. The boy’s name was Nathan Goren. In the Karbowski household, however, he took the name Zenon Macha\u0142owski. Zofia gave him her room. Years later, she remembered him extremely warmly – A very nice boy. Kind, clingy and a true part of the family; we all looked after him, the whole family – she said.<\/p>\n
Nathan’s mother <\/b><\/p>\n
The boy was visited by his mother in the Karbowskis\u2019 house, who also received false documents and was hiding from the Germans. After one visit, someone knocked on the door and began to ask questions about her, describing her appearance. The risk of being exposed began to increase. Nathan’s mother dressed up in Zofia’s clothes and was led by one of her brothers through the back exit to a safer place.<\/p>\n
In 1943, the Karbowskis were ordered to move to one of the apartments, which remained vacant after the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw had been liquidated by the Germans. This brought further dangers and Nathan’s mother moved him to a completely different place.<\/p>\n
After the war<\/b><\/p>\n
The Karbowski family then lost contact with Nathan and his mother. The war, however, had spared their lives. As it turned out later, Nathan also survived and as an adult, he decided to find his saviors. In 1988, he managed to contact Zofia Szo\u0142och n\u00e9e Karbowska, the only member still alive from the family where he was hiding.<\/p>\n
Nathan survived the Warsaw Uprising by pretending to be a Frenchman. After the Warsaw Uprising, Zofia was transported by the Germans to \u0141ambinowice, and later to Grossbreitenbach camps.<\/p>\n
Righteous family<\/b><\/p>\n
Nathan died in 1991, however, he managed to pass his testimony to the Jewish Yad Vashem Institute, which deals with commemorating those who saved Jews during the Holocaust. On the basis of the testimony provided by Nathan Goren, on January 1, 1992, this institution awarded the Karbowski family the title of Righteous Among the Nations – it happened on the 29th anniversary of Marta Kabrowska’s death and on the 39th anniversary of J\u00f3zef Karbowski’s death.<\/p>\n
Based on sprawiedliwi.org<\/i><\/p>\n
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