Wola Brzostecka (Brzostek)
Commemorated
Called by name
- Jan Jantoń
Jews who received help
- Estera Fisch
- Fajga Fisch
- Mojżesz Fisch
- Rojza Fisch
- Ruchla Fisch
- Sara Hena Fisch
A common grave
In the late morning on 8 December 1942, residents of Wola Brzostecka heard an explosion and gunfire. The Germans had discovered the forest hideout of the Jewish Fisch family. Six months earlier, the Fisch family – Sara Hena, her children Ruchla, Fejga, Rojza and Mojżesz, and granddaughter Estera – had fled Brzostek and found shelter in the home of local farmers Jan and Bronisława Jantoń. Three months later, when the situation grew dangerous, the Fisch family moved into a dugout in the nearby forest. Jan and Bronisława continued to bring them food.
The Germans shot the Jews they found on the spot and murdered Jan Jantoń, who had just brought food to the hideout. Four children were made fatherless as a result.
The Germans ordered the bodies of the victims to be buried in the forest. To this day they remain there in a common grave.
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The murdered RUCHLA FISCH lived in Brzostek before the war. On 8 December 1942, in the forest near Wola Brzostecka, she was murdered along with her whole family and JAN JANTOŃ who had helped them.
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BRONISŁAWA JANTOŃ, wife of the murdered JAN JANTOŃ (photograph from the 1990s).
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KAZIMIERZ JANTOŃ, son of the murdered JAN JANTOŃ (left), and ASHER ROTH, a relative from the murdered FISCH family, at the victims’ common grave in Wola Brzostecka, 2012.
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The commemoration in Brzostek, 22 June 2022.
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The commemoration in Brzostek, 22 June 2022.
