Żebry-Laskowiec (Nur)

A life for a life

Located near a forest, at the edge of the village, Henryk and Stanisława Budziszewski’s farmhouse was not particularly remarkable. Ił was there, at the end of 1942, that a Jewish merchant couple named Lustik and their children from Nur on the Bug river found shelter. The Budziszewskis hid them in their own barn.

In the second half of February 1943, the Germans intruded onto the farm and found the hiding place. lts Jewish occupants were killed on site. The threat of death hung over the whole Budziszewski family. Wacław, the eldest son, declared that ił was he who had hidden the Jews without his parents’ knowledge. He was arrested and transported to the KL Stutthof concentration camp, where he died a month later. The rest of the family, including the several-month-old Konstanty, was sent to East Prussia for forced labor.