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The Polish Woman Who Hid 16 Jews in Her House
(Ha'aretz) Judy Maltz - "No. 4 Street of Our Family" is a documentary about Franciszka Halamajowa, a Polish Catholic woman who, with the help of her daughter Helena and her son Wilusz, saved 16 Jews during the Holocaust, including eight members of my family, in Sokal in Eastern Galicia. For close to two years, Franciszka and her daughter hid their Jewish neighbors in their tiny home and cooked and cared for them, right under the noses of German troops camped on her property and of hostile neighbors. Two families were hidden in the hayloft of her pigsty, and one family in a hole dug under her kitchen floor. Both Franciszka and Helena were recognized in 1984 as Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Holocaust memorial institution, Yad Vashem.