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Płatkownica (Ostrów Mazowiecka)

Commemorated

Called by Name

  • Lucyna Radziejowska

Jews who received help

  • a woman and a man unknown by name and surname (a mother with her son)

Hidden in plain sight

Cries of “Jude!” shattered the peace at the house of Lucyna Radziejowska, a teacher from Płatkownica near Ostrów Mazowiecka. Several weeks earlier, Lucyna and her twelve-year-old daughter Anna took in a Jewish woman from Warsaw and her teenage son. The refugees most likely used forged documents, because they lived openly at Radziejowska’s house, though they never left the premises. The neighbors did not pay any special attention to them.

At the beginning of July 1943 German gendarmes entered Radziejowska’s home. After a short interrogation, the Germans took the Jews and Lucyna. The circumstances surrounding the death of the Jewish family are unclear. Radziejowska was sent to Pawiak prison in Warsaw and then to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died of typhus on 20 March 1944.

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