Skłody-Piotrowice
Commemorated
Called by name
- Hieronim Skłodowski
- Aleksandra Skłodowska
Jews who received help
- a few people unknown by name and surname
An empty hideout
The hideout was concealed well. All of the grain had to be moved out of the barn in order to uncover it. The Germans forced several Poles from the local area to do exactly that. On 20 January 1944, they searched the Skłodowski farmhouse in the village of Skłody-Piotrowice, where Jews escaped from Zaręby Kościelne had been hiding.
But the hideout was empty. Nevertheless, the Germans dragged Hieronim Skłodowski out from his home and beat him in front of his wife Amelia and their five children. He would not confess to having aided Jews, and was shot. Then a German gendarme murdered the bedridden eighty-two-year-old Aleksandra Skłodowska, Hieronim’s mother.
The Germans left the bodies of the victims where they had fallen, while the rest of the family was transported to the prison in Jasienica. The Skłodowskis were released, but they were not permitted to return to their family home until the end of the war.
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HIERONIM SKŁODOWSKI in the mid-1930s. Hieronim and his wife AMELIA hid Jews in their barn and gave them food.
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The family of the murdered HIERONIM SKŁODOWSKI. Top row, from the left: first, Irena Skłodowska (daughter); third, Leonard Skłodowski (son); fourth, Amelia Skłodowska (wife). Bottom row, from the left: Cecylia Skłodowska (daughter), Natalia Skłodowska (daughter), Włodzimierz Skłodowski (son).
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Amelia Skłodowska, wife of the murdered HIERONIM SKŁODOWSKI, with her granddaughter Kaja.
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The commemoration in Skłody-Piotrowice, 16 June 2019.
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The commemoration in Skłody-Piotrowice, 16 June 2019.
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The commemoration in Skłody-Piotrowice, 16 June 2019.
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The commemoration in Skłody-Piotrowice, 16 June 2019.
