Julian Szklarski

During World War II, Julian Szklarski lived in Boryslav, Lviv region. He had Jewish friends. One of them, Eliasz Feder, asked him to visit his wife Ali and his daughter Paulina in the city of Krosno. Having met the woman and the girl, Julian realized that they were in an extremely dangerous situation. The raids began in the city. So he found an apartment on the outskirts of Krosno and brought Ali and Paulina there. He got a job and settled down with them.

He periodically visited Eliasz in Boryslav and brought letters from his wife. Besides, he bought food for his sister Antonina, who was hiding a Jewish man Boleslav Ringler and his family.

In August 1944, Julian took little Paulina to his aunt in the town of Kobylki, 17 km from the Polish capital. Then, together with Ali, he participated in the Warsaw Uprising. After that, they left Warsaw: the woman was deported to the town of Kazimierza Wielka, which is not far from Kielce, and Julian ended up in a labor camp in Leipzig, where he was wounded during the air raid. Until the end of 1945, he was in a hospital in Lodz.

After the war, Szklarski found out that his friend Feder was killed by the Nazis in Boryslav. He found Feder’s wife and daughter again and told them the sad news. After all, he married Ali and officially adopted Paulina. In 1959, they both emigrated to Israel. Married life did not work out at a distance...

In 1990, Paulina Feder-Rosta came to Poland and met her adoptive father for the first time after a long separation and learned the story of her rescue.

In 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Julian Szklarski as the Righteous Among the Nations.