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Leopold Socha and Stefan Wroblewski
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Leopold Socha and Stefan Wroblewski of Lvov, Poland, worked on a three-man sewer team in the city's sewer system. Socha, a deeply religious catholic, made a deal with a Jew named Ignacy Chigier to hide a small group of Jews, including Chigier's wife and children, in the sewers of Lvov. For 14 months, Socha and his partner Stefan Wroblewski faithfully provided for their 21 Jews, moving them when their safety was in danger, feeding them, washing their clothes, and visiting them every day except Sunday. Socha continued their care even after Chigier's money ran out. Only ten of the original twenty-one survived the 14-month ordeal. Among them was Halina Wind Preston of Wilmington, whose unflagging dedication to remembering the Holocaust led to the creation of the Garden of the Righteous Gentiles. Socha and Wroblewski are honored at Yad Vashem as Righteous Gentiles. Socha died in 1946 in Gilwice, Poland. Wroblewski died there in 1984.
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