The Stolarski Family
Balbina Stolarska née Gajewska Mother
born 1889 – died 17 May 1980
Janina Grabowska née Stolarska Daughter
born 15 March 1909
Recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations:
31 May 1994
- Janina Grabowska née Stolarska
- Balbina Stolarska née Gajewska
Help Was Extended to:
Irena Mikelberg née Mikelberg
Regina Mikelberg
Story of Rescue
August 2009, Anna Zawadzka
When the Warsaw Jews were ordered to move into the ghetto area, where people were dying of starvation, exhaustion, and disease, Janina Grabowska supplied food and medicine to the family of her friend, Regina Mikelberg. In 1943 Regina asked Janina to rescuse her sister, Irena, out of the ghetto.
“I went to the Stayer factory to get Irena and I made it just in time! When they began to come out, I slipped into the column, Irena joined me and on the corner of Dworska Street, we managed to escape and hide without the police noticing.”
Irena lived at the house of Janina and her husband, Józef Dubniak. They were soon joined by Regina, who miraculously escaped being tansported to Treblinka.
Dubniak was a soldier with the Home Army, and as the risk of their house being searched grew, so the Mikelberg sisters, equipped with forged identity cards, ventured out onto the Aryan streets for the first and only time, in order to hide at another house, belonging to Balbina Stolarska, Janina’s mother.
Mrs Grabowska is currently living at a veterans nursing home in Warsaw’s Wola district.
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