Zofia Baniecka holds the title Righteous Among the Nations, given by Yad Vashem to those who saved Jews during the Holocaust at risk to themselves.
The record lists Zofia Baniecka as Polish Righteous Among the Nations.
Zofia Baniecka was born at Warsaw in 1917. Her recorded nationality is Poland. She was educated at University of Warsaw.
By occupation Zofia Baniecka was partisan and sculptor - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Most rescuers said afterwards that they had done nothing remarkable. The historical record disagrees, which is the point of recording it.
Recognition: Righteous Among the Nations (2016) and Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Zofia Baniecka died in 1993, aged 76. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 2016
- Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Worked as partisan and sculptor
- Educated at University of Warsaw
