Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is Konrad Rudnicki.
The record lists Konrad Rudnicki as Polish astronomer (1926–2013).
Konrad Rudnicki was born at Warsaw in 1926. His recorded nationality is Poland. He was educated at University of Warsaw.
By occupation Konrad Rudnicki was astronomer, esperantist and catholic priest - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Rescue during the Holocaust was not a grand gesture but a sequence of small, repeatable risks taken over months or years.
Recognition: Medal of the 40th Anniversary of People's Poland, Medal of the National Education Commission, Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta and Righteous Among the Nations (1995).
Konrad Rudnicki died in 2013, aged 87. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Medal of the 40th Anniversary of People's Poland
- Medal of the National Education Commission
- Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1995
- Worked as astronomer, Esperantist and Catholic priest
- Educated at University of Warsaw
