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Non-Jews Still in Touch with Jews They Saved from the Nazis
(AP) Kirsten Grieshaber - On International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022, Polish man Andrzej Sitkowski, 93, is still regularly in touch with Hadassah Kosak, now 84, after his mother agreed to hide the little Jewish girl from the Nazis at their home on the outskirts of Warsaw in 1943, when he was 15. "Of course, we were afraid, but fear was our daily dish during those years anyway," Sitkowski said. For their efforts to help save the lives of Kosak, her sister Marion and their mother Bronislawa, Andrzej and his mother were named "Righteous Among the Nations" in 1995, a title bestowed by Yad Vashem on non-Jews who took great risks to save Jews during the Holocaust. After the war, Kosak immigrated via Israel to the U.S. where she became a professor of history in New York. "One of the amazing things about the rescuers is that not only did they rescue the specific person who was hidden, but all of their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren - an entire family tree," said Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany. Kosak's mother and sister ended up in Britain, where Marion married Ralph Miliband and where their two sons Ed and David, two well-known politicians with the British Labour Party, were born.