Misiuna Wladyslaw
Władysław Misiuna
born 19 July 1925
Recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations:
28 June 1966
- Władysław Misiuna
Help Was Extended to:
Rachela Micmacher
Dworka Zalcberg
Zofia Stupicka-Marmurek
Szmul Pinkus
Story of Rescue
October 2007, Monika Czekanowska
At the outbreak of the war Władysław Misiuna was fifteen years old. The hardships of war made him grow up quickly and develop deeply rooted, mature values. Upon seeing the suffering of persecuted Jews, he felt that it was his duty to help.
He was living in Radom, near the ghetto, where the family of a tailor named Szmul Pinkus was being held. They were friends of the Misiunas. Together with his brothers, Władysław would climb over the fence and bring the Pinkuses food, medicine and hygiene products, helping them survive until the closing of the ghetto, after which they were murdered.
In 1942, Misiuna was hired as a supervisor on a rabbit farm housed on labour camp premises in one of the warehouses of an arms factory. Upon his request, several Jewish women were hired to feed the rabbits, among them Rachela Micmacher, Dworka Zalcbergand Zofia Stupicka- Marmurek. Misiuna looked after the women, supplying them with food, medications and toiletries, but mostly by offering them his moral and spiritual support – in the form of poems he wrote for them, for instance. Władysław was under constant threat for his bold activity. Tortured repeatedly, he barely escaped with his life.
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