Zofia Kossak-Szczucka 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 Zofia Kossak-Szczucka as Polish writer.
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was born at Kośmin, Lublin Voivodeship in 1889. Her recorded nationality is Poland. She was educated at School of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
By occupation Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was writer, opinion journalist and poet - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
The people honoured as Righteous Among the Nations were overwhelmingly ordinary; what distinguished them was that they acted while their neighbours did not.
Recognition: Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Order of Saint Lazarus (1938), Order of the White Eagle (2018) and Righteous Among the Nations (1982).
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka died in 1968, aged 79. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Order of Saint Lazarus — 1938
- Order of the White Eagle — 2018
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1982
- Worked as writer, opinion journalist and poet
- Educated at School of Fine Arts in Warsaw
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