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Aniela Ludwika (Muchowicz) Szostak (abt. 1891 - abt. 1970)

Aniela Ludwika "Lunia" Szostak formerly Muchowicz
Born about in Warsaw, Polandmap
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Wife of — married 8 Oct 1914 in Warszawamap
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Died about at about age 79 in Warsaw, Polandmap
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Biography

Baptism: St. Alexander’s Church. Note: Ujazdowskie Avenue.

Honors: 2013 Rightous Among the Nations.

Residence Note: Zoliborz (county of Warsaw). 1914 Warsaw, Poland. Note: 1505 Twarda Street.

Occupation: Teacher.

Marriage Husband Zygmunt Szostak. Wife Aniela Ludwika (Lunia) Muchowicz. Marriage 25 SEP 1914. Warsaw, Russia. Note: All Saint’s Parish Church.

Child: Jurek (Jerzy) Feliks Szostak. Child: Marian Zbigniew (Zbyszek?) Szostak.

Notes

“My aunt Ludwika (we called her Lunia, it is diminutive) lived in Warsaw at Øoliborz (county of Warsaw). She married my uncle Szostak and they had two sons: Zbigniew (older) and Jerzy. Both are already dead. Zbigniew was a RAF pilot during the II World War and was shot flying over Poland at the end of the war. It happened near Cracow and there he was buried. His brother Jerzy had a son and a daughter. His daughter was killed in a car accident. Jerzy died in England in2005 (he stayed in England after war).”.

--Zofia Muchowicz 04/07.

Written to Karol from Lunia (in Polish on postcard).

“This is my last photograph made in Kielce (Polish town not far from Warsaw). They say that I look quite good in the photo. Have I changed a lot since my childhood? Can your memory go back so far?” Your sister, Lunia”.

JERUSALEM (EJP)---Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, holds Monday an event posthumously honoring Ludwika & Zygmunt Szostak from Poland as Righteous Among the Nations.

The memorial ceremony takes place in the Hall of Remembrance followed by the unveiling of the name of the Righteous in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations in the presence of His Excellency Polish Ambassador to Israel Jacek Hodorowicz, Elzbieta Stradowska, great-niece of the late Righteous Ludwika & Zygmunt Szostak who will receive the medal and certificate of honor on their behalf.

Holocaust survivors will also attend the event.

The Rescue Story.

One day in August 1942, a woman appeared at the modest apartment of Ludwika & Zygmunt Szostak inquiring about a notice the couple had put in the paper regarding renting a room in their apartment. The Szostaks were an elderly couple that lived in the Żoliborz suburb of Warsaw and in order to ease their tough financial situation, decided to rent out the extra room in their house. It quickly became apparent that the woman who came to rent the room, Dora Agatstein was Jewish, who along with her 7-year-old daughter, Karolina, escaped the Lvov Ghetto just one month before the Great Deportation. .

Despite their initial concern over housing the mother and daughter, the Szostak couple welcomed them in their home and took care of them. Even as the rent money Dora paid to the couple began to run out, the good relationship between her and the Szostaks only grew stronger. Since the room where Dora and Karolina slept was not heated, the Szostak couple decided to let them sleep in their bedroom which had a heater and together they passed the cold days of winter. After running out of money for food, Ludwika and Dora began to work from the apartment by wrapping homemade candies.

Even little Karolina, who due to the situation was forbidden to leave the house and play with neighboring kids in the yard, helped out in this endeavor. Dora also began to give private lessons to some children in the neighborhood allowing her a little income. When the achievements by her students began to stick out in school, a nun who managed the institution came to visit Dora, offering her a teaching job. The visit by the nun and Dora’s teaching position at the school helped to lower the suspicions and worries of the neighbors towards Dora and her young daughter. Karolina was enrolled in a kindergarden that was run under the patronage of the AK, the Polish resistance's Home Army in Nazi-occupied Poland, and was walked to and from school by Ludwika.

With the breakout of the Polish Uprising in August 1944, the Żoliborz suburb was hit hard by the heavy fighting between the Soviets and Germans. Residents, including both the Szostaks and Agatsteins, were loaded on trains and taken to southern Poland where they lived as refugees. Zygmunt, Ludwika, Dora, and Karolina found themselves living with a poor farming family. The four joined in the hard agricultural work, including picking potatoes and Dora continued to earn a little by teaching lessons until the area was liberated by the Soviet army in April 1945.  .

Dora and Karolina immigrated to Israel in 1950. Ludwika died in 1970 and her husband, Zygmunt in 1972. On November 13, 2012, the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations recognized Ludwika and Zygmunt Szostak as Righteous Among the Nations.

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