{"id":41391,"date":"2023-02-21T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dignitynews.eu\/?p=41391"},"modified":"2023-02-21T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T13:40:00","slug":"righteous-from-the-lublin-region-irena-zielinska-who-rescued-a-jew-during-world-war-ii-and-later-married-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dignitynews.eu\/en\/righteous-from-the-lublin-region-irena-zielinska-who-rescued-a-jew-during-world-war-ii-and-later-married-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Righteous from the Lublin region. Irena Zieli\u0144ska, who rescued a Jew during World War II and later married him\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A beautiful story in tragic times. Irena Zieli\u0144ska, a young Polish woman, risked her life saving her future husband from the Holocaust.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in 1925, Irena Zieli\u0144ska lived in Majdan Wrotkowski near Lublin, which is now a part of the city. When Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, and the Second World War broke out, she was just 14 years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her father, Piotr, kept good relations with the Jew Shmul Berengut and his sons Czes\u0142aw and W\u0142adys\u0142aw, during the interwar period. They lived in Zemborzyce Ko\u015bcielne &#8211; a village not far from where the Zieli\u0144ski family came from.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Reinhardt Action began in March 1942, Irena started to help her father&#8217;s Jewish friends. Thanks also to her support, they did not go to the Piaski ghetto, but escaped to the D\u0105browa forest near Zemborzyce. There they stayed for some time, fed by that Polish woman. After a short time, Irena took W\u0142adys\u0142aw Berengut to her flat, even though in German-occupied areas, giving any help to Jews was punishable by death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the occupation, the woman worked as a labourer, lived poorly, and had a small flat. She organised two secret hiding places: a cell behind a wardrobe, to which a secret passage led, and a shelter under the floor of the cell. It was there that the hidden Jews waited out the most dangerous moments. Irena&#8217;s difficult financial situation and the teenager&#8217;s modest income did not allow her to give shelter to W\u0142adys\u0142aw&#8217;s brother and father either. So, they remained in hiding in the forest. Unfortunately, the Germans discovered them during a manhunt and shot Shmul and Czes\u0142aw.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">W\u0142adys\u0142aw stayed with Irena Zieli\u0144ska until July 1944. When the Second World War ended, the rescued Jew and the Polish woman who saved him got married.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On 21 February 1992 the Yad Vashem Institute awarded Irena Zieli\u0144ska-Berengut the medal &#8220;Righteous Among the Nations&#8221; in recognition of the woman&#8217;s heroism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful story in tragic times. 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