Tworki |

Commemorated

Called by Name

Zofia Krasuska
Feliks Bogusław Krasuski

Jews who received help

six or seven men unknown by name and surname

Mother and son

It was the shoes that gave them away. Had they not been left by the door to the root cellar, the Germans would not have found the seven Jews who were hiding on Leon and Zofia Krasuski’s farm in Tworki near Siedlce. On 13 February 1943, Leon took advantage of the gendarmes’ distraction during a search of the buildings and fled under fire to the nearby forest. The Germans took his wife and his five-year-old son, Boguś, with the hidden Jews and shot them all in front of the house. Zofia tried to shield her son with her own body. In vain.

Leon continued to hide from the Germans in the forest for many weeks. After the war, he sold the farm, remarried and had a new family. He never told his children about the tragedy he had lived through.

ZOFIA KRASUSKA AND HER SON FELIKS BOGUSŁAW KRASUSKI, whose loved ones called him BOGUŚ. The only surviving picture of the murdered mother and son remains on their gravestone.
LEON KRASUSKI, husband of the murdered ZOFIA KRASUSKA, father of the murdered FELISK BOGUSŁAW “BOGUŚ” KRASUSKI, during military service in Toruń, 1925.
LEON KRASUSKI, husband of the murdered ZOFIA KRASUSKA, father of the murdered FELISK BOGUSŁAW “BOGUŚ” KRASUSKI, 1960.
The commemoration in Tworki, 19 June 2020.
The commemoration in Tworki, 19 June 2020.
The commemoration in Tworki, 19 June 2020.
The commemoration in Tworki, 19 June 2020.