Karolina Juzczykowska Hero

Were there really any “hero’s” during the holocaust? There were many; they may not have been fighting in the war, but they did their part in living and standing up for what was right. Karolina Juszczykowska, a single mother who had little money and strength to help her child, found a little way to help the world against the Nazi’s. Karolina was born in Bowkow, Poland in 1898. “I never went to school. Until I was thirteen years old I lived with my parents, and then went to Germany where I worked for five years for a farmer in Mecklenberg”. After a while of working in Germany, she moved back to Poland to live with her sister. Karolina after moving to Poland had many jobs to support herself including construction, as a laundress, a maid, and she worked for an organization called The Organization Todt as an engineer. “She also had many other jobs that aren’t mentioned to this day”. “I have no assets and don’t expect to have any in the future, I don’t belong to any political party or any other organization. I don’t care about politics”. …show more content…
One day on the street Karolina met two me named Paul and Janek and they offered her three-hundred zloty each to house them from the Nazi’s. With how tight Karolina was on money and how much she needed to keep her daughter alive, she accepted. She let them into her home and took care of them. When it was the evening they were to go down into the cellar and sleep on the floor and when she left she locked them down there so they couldn’t be seen. After around 6 weeks the neighbors got suspicious and alerted the Gestapo. On July 23, 1944 the police raided her home and found the two men hiding. They were both shot on the spot, as Karolina was taken away and her daughter was left behind. They never saw each other