The Kozminski Family
Karol Koźmiński Father
born 1895 – died 1954
Teresa Koźmińska stepmother
born 7 July 1918 – died 4 February 1999
Jerzy Karol Koźmiński Son
born 31 August 1924
Recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations:
16 February 1965
- Teresa Koźmińska
- Jerzy Karol Koźmiński
2005
- Karol Koźmiński
Help Was Extended to:
Szmul Cytryn
Fania Cytryn
Rachmyl Kon
Julian Kon
Mordechaj Glazer
Samuel Glazer
died 1989
Mina Glazer
Seweryn Glazer
Fania Glazer
Jerzy Kryszek
Icchak Kryszek
Herman Herling
Halina Herling
Barbara Chwat
Mieczysław Chwat
Seifmanowie
Story of Rescue
October 2007, Katarzyna Mazurczak
As part of assisting the Żegota – the Polish Council to Aid Jews, the Koźmiński family harboured three Jews beginning in September, 1942. One of them, a man named Roman Kon, supported himself by working as a watchmaker. While on a run to the ghetto to obtain some watch parts for Kon, the nineteen-year-old Jerzy met the Glazer family, who asked him for help.
The Koźmińskis decided to hide the Glazers in a house they rented explicitly for this purpose in the Warsaw suburb of Wawer, where they moved in 1943. One of Jerzy’s runs coincided with the outbreak of the uprising in the ghetto. He was fortunate to get out, but before he did, he first made sure to help the Schliferstein brothers.
Next, he helped his stepmother Teresa move the members of the Glazer, Kryszek, Sejfman and Chwat families to the Wawer safehouse. Jerzy also led four people to a bunker at the address Hoża 38. He remembers how hard it was to keep a group of 14 to 22 people quiet, let alone invisible. Jerzy was also active in the ZWZ. When he was caught and interrogated at the Pawiak facility, he did not give up any information on anybody. He was sent to Auschwitz, and from there to Mauthausen. He survived.
After the liberation, he returned to Łódź, where he met up with the people from Wawer. In 1964, the Glazers invited Jerzy’s stepmother, Teresa, to stay with them in Israel. There, she got married again and converted to Judaism. To this day, Jerzy participates in workshops with Jewish youth groups.
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