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Excerpts from an interview with Władysław Miazgowicz
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Account by Władysław Miazgowicz, a Righteous Among the Nations. In July 1942 two sisters Regina and Helen Schreiber, escaped from a ghetto in Stalowa Wola. They went to a house of their school friend Marta. Marta’s whole family got engaged in helping them: the father and the brothers and the husband, Władysław Miazgowicz as well. For a few months they were hiding, feeding and supporting the sisters in a struggle for survival. Thanks to the phony documents that the family had managed to get, the two women could leave for the Reich and work there. They both survived the war. Rywcia and her sister lived with their father in Rozwadów. Their Father had been deported to Siberia and died there, in Siberia, so they moved out… They had to walk through the San river to come to us… Well, actually, on the day when they crossed the river San, it was raining and cold. And it was harvest time. And all those sheaf of corn, such as… And the father, when it stopped raining, went back in the fields to dry crops. And there, he found two people, women there… Well, my father brought them in. And this is a story how they were saved. If they [the two women] hadn’t crossed the San river and hid under a sheaf, the Germans would have deported them to Bełżec and shot. We were informed that the Germans had been approaching. And at the time we were sitting in a bunker. The Germans had a dog and when they were going past the bunker – a miracle happened! The dog didn’t sniff us out! We were wondering how this could have happened? And our dear friend Rywcia who had attended religion classes and knew a lot about Catholicism (how to pray the Our Father…) and at the very moment when Germans were passing we were talking to each other (together with dear Rywcia… Hail Mary). And when the Germans with the dog were next to us, Rywcia hugged me saying a prayer Hail Mary and the dog passed and didn’t sniff us out. Fragments of an interview recorded by Zofia Waślicka in May 2009 for the project “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.