Teresa Janina Kierocinska 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 Teresa Janina Kierocinska as Polish nun (1885-1946).
Teresa Janina Kierocinska was born at Wieluń in 1885. Her recorded nationality is Poland.
By occupation Teresa Janina Kierocinska was nun - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Yad Vashem's criteria are strict: the rescuer must have risked their life, liberty or position, and must have sought no payment. That is why the title carries the weight it does.
Recognition: Righteous Among the Nations (1992).
Teresa Janina Kierocinska died in 1946, aged 61. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1992
- Worked as nun
