For sixteen months, the Germans patrolling the railway bridge in Biecz did not realize that Jews were hiding nearby. J\u00f3zef and Maria Pruchniewicz organized a hiding place in the attic of their stable, which the Blum family – a married couple with two children, friends of the Pruchniewiczs \u2013 occupied from August 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The risk was increasing, so in November 1943 the Blums moved to another location. Nevertheless, the Germans came for J\u00f3zef Pruchniewicz in March 1944. They beat him in front of his wife and ten-year-old daughter Helena, and finally took him to the Gestapo post in Jas\u0142o. The family found out about his death from a German poster with a list of executed prisoners. J\u00f3zef probably died during an execution in a forest near Jas\u0142o. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three people from the Blum family survived the war. After moving to lsrael, they kept in touch with J\u00f3zef’s second daughter, Jadwiga W\u0119drychowicz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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