Poland’s oldest rescuer of Jews reveals an epic WWII story
In 1941, Walaszczyk (prounced Valash-chick) was in a room at the Grabowska Hotel in Warsaw when he heard Nazi officers outside their door.
The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz is pictured during the ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020.(photo credit: REUTERS/NORA SAVOSNICK)ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
