Marceli Godlewski is recorded at Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations - one of the non-Jews who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
The record lists Marceli Godlewski as Roman Catholic priest from Poland.
Marceli Godlewski was born at Turczyn in 1865. His recorded nationality is Poland.
By occupation Marceli Godlewski was politician, catholic priest and opinion journalist - 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: Righteous Among the Nations (2009).
Marceli Godlewski died in 1945, aged 80. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 2009
- Worked as politician, Catholic priest and opinion journalist
