The Ruszkowski Family
Weronika Ruszkowska Mother
born 4 February 1892
Danuta Czenza - Pawłowska née Ruszkowska Daughter
born 25 May 1925
Aurelia Marszewska née Ruszkowska Daughter
born 21 September 1920
Recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations:
14 November 1994
- Danuta Czenza - Pawłowska née Ruszkowska
- Aurelia Marszewska née Ruszkowska
- Weronika Ruszkowska
Help Was Extended to:
Story of Rescue
November 2008, Teresa Torańska
Four families risked their own lives to help save Mark Altstadt of Lwow, a soldier of the Polish Army who had lost a leg in the September campaign.
First he hid on Koszykowa Street in Warsaw. Aryan papers were obtained for him, he began working in the Tobacco Monopoly. He was found out. “And then – he wrote in 1993 to the Jewish Historical Institute – Aurelia Marszewska, a friend from work, immediately, because it took her mere seconds to decide, organized to take me out of there through the back door.”
She brought him to her family. She lived with her mother and sister on Radna Street. “We lived together with him – she wrote – very modestly off the salaries of myself and my mother, and sometimes, periodically, from the money we had all made.”
He was with them almost two years. With a two week break when they had to take him to their friends in Żoliborz. Again he found work, at the Security Printing Works, and again there was someone who began doubting his Aryan descent. So he was taken to Albert and Florentyna Szart in the village Dębe Wielkie, where he awaited liberation.
He wrote: “Thanks to the assistance I received I was not in the ghetto and I did not lose my life”.
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