The Apollow Family
Konstanty Apołłow Husband
Jadwiga Apołłow Wife
Recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations:
7 May 1987
- Jadwiga Apołłow
- Konstanty Apołłow
Help Was Extended to:
Story of Rescue
September 2010, Wirtualny Sztetl
Jadwiga and Konstanty Apołłow, with their two daughters – Krysia (14 years old) and Irenka (6 years old) – lived in Warsaw at 6 Skorupka Street. Konstanty was a lawyer.
In the summer of 1942, as the Warsaw ghetto was in the process of being liquidated, Irena Skowronek, Jadwiga's sister, asked the Appołłow's to hide an elderly Jew. That person was Anna Neuding, who had managed to get to the "Aryan side"and needed shelter. Konstanty and Jadwiga took her into their home and cared for her for two months, until such time as a safe hiding-place could be found..
About the help she received, Anna wrote this in a testimony to the Jewish Historical Institute,
"In August 1942, straight after leaving the ghetto, I found shelter in the home of lawyer, Konstanty Apołłow. Knowing that (...), I had no documents, he took me in, even though the consequences could be drastic for him and for his family (...), in a totally selfless manner, he took care me (...). Thanks to his immense humanity, I managed to survive the most difficult and dangerous period of my life". (Source: The Book of the Righteous, ed Michał Grynberg, Warsaw 1993).
Ghetto
A designated area of a city in which Jews were permitted to live. Ghettos were sometimes surrounded by a wall and had gates that would be closed for the night, and were sometimes called "Jewish cities" or "Jewish quarters". The term "ghetto" probably was probably first used in the sixteenth century, though its origins are unclear. The most popular theory speculates(...)
Warsaw
[Yiddish, Varshe, Varsha, Varshoy]
The earliest Jewish settlement in Warsaw dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the first half of the fifteenth century, Warsaw had a "Jewish Street", synagogue and cemetery. The first mention of Jews being expelled from the city dates back to 1483. In 1527, Sigismund I the Old confirmed Warsaw's de non tolerandis Judaeis privilege,(...)
Warsaw
[Yiddish, Varshe, Varsha, Varshoy]
The earliest Jewish settlement in Warsaw dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the first half of the fifteenth century, Warsaw had a "Jewish Street", synagogue and cemetery. The first mention of Jews being expelled from the city dates back to 1483. In 1527, Sigismund I the Old confirmed Warsaw's de non tolerandis Judaeis privilege,(...)
Warsaw
[Yiddish, Varshe, Varsha, Varshoy]
The earliest Jewish settlement in Warsaw dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the first half of the fifteenth century, Warsaw had a "Jewish Street", synagogue and cemetery. The first mention of Jews being expelled from the city dates back to 1483. In 1527, Sigismund I the Old confirmed Warsaw's de non tolerandis Judaeis privilege,(...)
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