Trzydzieści dziewięć osób pochodzenia żydowskiego przetrwało niemiecką okupację Drohobycza, ukrywając się przez dwadzieścia dwa miesiące w piwnicy pod domem Sławy i Izka Wołosiańskich. Byli wśród nich lekarze, prawnicy, krawcowe, dzieci w wieku kilku lat i osoby starsze. Poniżej opowiadamy, kim byli i jak potoczyły się ich dalsze losy.
1. Bezazel Artur Hendel
2. Zofia Hendel
3. Hadassa Lizi Hendel
Bezalel (Calek) Artur Hendel was born on August 14, 1887, in Lipno—located in the Russian Partition at the time, and now in Poland—into a devout, modest Jewish family. As a young man, he trained to become a cantor (a prayer leader) and a kosher butcher. To this end, he visited his older brother, who was already working as a butcher in Zagreb. In the early…
4. Wolf Sztok
5. Genia Sztok
6. Stella Sztok
7. Mitka Sztok
8. The nanny
Wolf Sztok—Eugenia Herzig’s brother—and his wife Genia (also known as Tova) went into hiding together with their two daughters, Stella and Mitka, and a nanny whose surname, unfortunately, could not be ascertained. During the occupation, Stella was between eight and ten years old, and Mitka was five or six. After the war, both girls emigrated to Israel…
9. Motio Egert
10. Fela Strasser
11. Lonio Strasser
Motio Egert, Fela Strasser’s brother, initially hid in the neighboring cellar; it was he who dug a passage connecting the two hideouts, enabling the groups to discover each other’s existence. After the liberation of Drohobycz, he enlisted in the Red Army…
12. Gustaw Kreisler
13. Janina Kreisler
Gustaw Kreisler, a chemist who had worked at a refinery before the war, was a close friend of Elyakim David Klinghoffer. He went into hiding with his wife, Janina, who had a son from a previous marriage to a non-Jewish man. After the war, Gustaw returned to his native Vienna and later moved to Gliwice. Janina’s son eventually settled in Australia.
14. Elyakim David Klinghoffer
A lawyer by training, he was a friend of both Gustaw Kreisler and Jakub Zobl. After the war, he moved to Haifa, Israel.
15. Ruth Bienstock
16. Ruth Bienstock's husband
17. Mr Levi/Weiss
Ruth Bienstock went into hiding with her husband—whose first name could not be established—and her father, known only as Mr. Levi or Weiss. Their subsequent fate remains unknown.
18. Bertold Frey
19. Halina Frey
20. Amalia Rozenberg
Bertold Frey, a dentist by profession, went into hiding with his wife Halina, the daughter of Amalia Rozenberg. Halina was one of Sława’s closest friends and remained in contact with her for the rest of her life. After the war, the couple moved to Offenbach, Germany, where they raised their son, Jurek. Amalia, Halina’s mother, died in Gliwice in 1967.
21. Zygmunt Herzig
22. Eugenia Herzig
23. Izydor Herzig
24. Ludka Herzig
Zygmunt Herzig, the husband of Eugenia née Sztok (Wolf Sztok’s sister), saved his brother Izydor by pulling him away just as he was about to be taken by a train bound for a concentration camp, and brought him into the cellar. Izydor’s wife had died before…
25. Dr. Leon Mischel
26. Berta Mischel
27. Dr. Samuel Mischel
28. Helena Mischel
29. Janina Mischel
The brothers, Dr. Leon and Dr. Samuel Mischel, went into hiding with their families. Leon’s wife, Berta, died after the war in Buffalo, New York. Samuel did not live to emigrate; he died in Drohobych…
30. Jakub Zobel
31. Elza Zobel
Jakub Zobel, a friend of Elyakim David Klinghoffer, and his wife Elza, a talented seamstress, had two daughters together. After the war, they emigrated first to Israel and then to Canada.
32. Józef Lind
33. Ludwika Lind
34. Anna Lind
Józef and Ludwika Lind were in hiding together with their five- or six-year-old daughter, Anna—the very same red-haired girl whom Sława had previously concealed by placing her in plain sight in the window of her own apartment. Ludwika’s sister had been Sława’s neighbor before the war. After the liberation, the entire family emigrated to Australia.
35. Tecia Winkler
She was unmarried during the occupation. After the war, she moved to Chrzanów, married a Pole, and took the surname Korczyńska.
36. Prof. Joseph Reinhold
A cardiologist and psychiatrist; he remained a bachelor during the occupation. After the war, he worked on the development of health resorts in Truskavets and Jeseník. He died of a heart attack on November 3, 1947, in Jeseník.
37. Maksymilian Tepper
38. Halina Tepper
39. Julian Tepper
Maksymilian and Halina Tepper went into hiding with their son Julian, who was about twelve years old at the time. After the war, the three of them—along with Sława and Izydor—moved to Wrocław. Halina remained in contact with Sława for the rest of her life. In 1968, the entire family emigrated to Canada, where Julian married Millicent. They have two children, Michael and Tracy, and live in Toronto.
Michaela), Kanada
i Halina Tepper
Trzydzieści dziewięć osób, trzydzieści dziewięć osobnych historii, jedna wspólna piwnica pod domem przy ulicy Szaszkiewicza w Drohobyczu. Więcej o samej Sławie i Izydorze Wołosiańskich można przeczytać w głównym artykule poświęconym ich historii.