Czyżew-Sutki
Commemorated
Called by Name
- Franciszek Andrzejczyk
Saved Jews
- Rajzel Brukowski
- the wife and children of Zelig Gromadzyn
- Rachel Kachan
- Bracha Kirszenbojm
- Mosze Kuzmacher with his family
- Szmulik Lepak
- Rachel Lichtensztejn
- Izrael Muncarz with his wife and children
- Symcha Muncarz
- Fejwel Niewad
- Judel Węgorz
- Eliahu Wisocki
- Mashel Zylbersztejn
- and a few people unknown by name and surname
The basement and the dugout
The Jews of Czyżew knew Franciszek and Stanisława Andrzejczyk from before the war. When the Germans liquidated the ghetto in the autumn of 1942, several Jewish families totaling eighteen people fled and sought aid at the Andrzejczyk household in Czyżew-Sutki. The hosts were already taking care of their six children, but they did not hesitate to take in the refugees and give them food and a roof over their heads for several months.
Good fortune abandoned the Andrzejczyks on 20 March 1943. On that day, German gendarmes from Czyżew surrounded the house and began a search. They found two hideouts – a dugout in the yard and a basement beneath the floor of the house. They shot three of the hiding Jews and Franciszek Andrzejczyk on site and transported the remaining Jews to Szulborze. When it was all done, the Germans returned and raided the house, taking anything they could find, including the livestock.
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FRANCISZEK AND STANISŁAWA ANDRZEJCZYK TOGETHER WITH THEIR CHILDRERN hid Jews in the basement of their own masonry house. At that time brick houses were rare in the vicinity.
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Stanisława Andrzejczyk (left, bottom row) and her husband, the murdered FRANCISZEK ANDRZEJCZYK (bottom row, right), during the funeral of their one-and-a-half-year-old son Tadeusz, 1941. Above them, from the left: Mrs. Krzystosiak, mother of Stanisława Andrzejczyk, and the children of Stanisława and Franciszek Andrzejczyk - Jadwiga Stachurska née Andrzejczyk, Edward Andrzejczyk, Henryk Andrzejczyk, Irena Borkowska née Andrzejczyk, and Eugenia Pakeła née Andrzejczyk.
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The murdered FRANCISZEK ANDRZEJCZYK (second from the right) with his family outside their home in Czyżew-Sutki, 1942.
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The commemoration in Czyżew-Sutki, 27 October 2019.
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The commemoration in Czyżew-Sutki, 27 October 2019.
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The commemoration in Czyżew-Sutki, 27 October 2019.
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The commemoration in Czyżew-Sutki, 27 October 2019.
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The commemoration in Czyżew-Sutki, 27 October 2019.
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The commemoration in Czyżew-Sutki, 27 October 2019.
