List of Polish Righteous Among the Nations includes families and individuals recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for rendering rescue and assistance to Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust in Poland. , there are men and women recognized as Polish Righteous Among the Nations, over a quarter of the recognized by Yad Vashem in total.
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Irena Adamowicz: a courier for the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa) who provided information to a number of Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland. In 1985, Adamowicz was posthumously bestowed the title of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Antonowicz family (Wincenty Antonowicz along with his wife Jadwiga and teenage daughter Lucyna Antonowicz-Bauer) sheltered the 20-year-old Jewish woman Bronisława Malberg in their house after the liquidation of the Wilno Ghetto during the Nazi German occupation of Poland in World War II, as well as two other Jewish families including Henia and Adi Kulgan. Wincenty and his wife Jadwiga were posthumously bestowed the titles of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on June 14, 1998. Ferdynand Arczyński: one of the founding members of an underground organization Żegota (Council for Aid to Jews) in German-occupied Poland. Arczyński worked tirelessly for Żegota, serving not only as treasurer but also as head of its "legalization" department, which produced forged documents distributed to Jews. He also acted as a liaison with branches of Żegota. In 1965, Arczynski visited Israel, where on May 18, 1965, Yad Vashem recognized him as Righteous Among the Nations.
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Banasiewicz family: The family of Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz with sons: Jerzy, Tadeusz, Antoni, and daughter Maria lived on a farm in Orzechowce near Przemyśl during the Nazi German occupation of Poland in World War II. In July 1991 they were bestowed the titles of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem for rescuing fifteen Jews escaping the Holocaust from the ghetto in Przemyśl. Zofia Baniecka was a Polish member of the Resistance during World War II. In addition to relaying guns and other materials to resistance fighters, Baniecka and her mother sheltered over 50 Jews in their home between 1941 and 1944. She was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, posthumously, in 2016. Władysław Bartoszewski from 1942 was active in the Provisional Committee for Aid to Jews and its successor organization, the Council for Aid to Jews (codenamed Żegota). After the war, he contributed to the strengthening of Polish-Israeli ties. Jerzy Bielecki was one of the few inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp who managed to escape the camp successfully, a feat he did while saving his Jewish girlfriend. Bilecki family, including Julian Bilecki, saved about 20 Jews from Pidhaitsi Ghetto who seeked refuge at their farm Andrzej Bogucki, wife Janina and Czesław Lewicki sheltered Jewish composer Władysław Szpilman. Władysław Bońkowski: After the liquidation of the Sambor Ghetto, Władysław Bońkowski, a restaurant manager at the Sambor train station, offered shelter to a group of sixteen Jews who escaped from the ghetto, and successfully hid them throughout the remainder of the war. Bońkowski was recognised as Righteous in 1967. Anna Borkowska saved 17 young Jewish Zionists in her Vilna convent. Szczepan Bradło and family saved three Jewish families of 13 in a dugout Cecylia and Maciej Brogowski sheltered a Jewish girl named Irena Sznycer in their village Brust family: Four members of the Brust family in Czestochowa provided assistance and shelter for a number of Jewish refugees. One of them was murdered by Gestapo; the other three survived and received the Righteous award in 1979. Henryk Buszko: Buszko (age 30) farming near Białystok, rescued Jews who escaped from the Holocaust train heading from the Białystok Ghetto for the Treblinka extermination camp on 21 September 1943. Buszko was caught by the German gendarmerie arriving at Liza Stara from Pietkowo, and murdered for hiding Jews.