Portrait of Polish rescuer Aniela Staniewski.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 19604

Date: 1972
Locale: Staniewice, [Kielce] Poland
Variant Locale: Staniewicze
Photo Designation: RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Poland
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alexandre and Rita Blumstein

Event History: See "Grodno" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume 2 Part A.
Biography: Aniela Staniewski lived with her husband Edward in the rural Polish town of Staniewicze. They were farmers by trade, but due to a grave illness Edward was unable to assist his wife during the war. Inspite of the decree by HItler's regime that the aiding of Jews was punishable by death, the Staniewski's agreed to hide the Blumstein family upon their escape from the Grodno Ghetto in 1943. At the time of the Soviet liberation of Poland in the Spring of 1944 Aniela was hiding 8 Jewish refugees in addition to housing her husband, niece and her self in her small cottage. After the end of the second world war Aniela remained in Staniewski until her death in 1982. She has been recognized as one of the Polish Righteous who risked their lives during the Shoah.
Keyword: CLOSE-UPS
POLES
RESCUERS/RESCUE
RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS
STANIEWSKA, ANIELA
WOMEN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Alexandre and Rita Blumstein
: Record last modified: 2022-03-11 00:00:00
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