Rodzina Jedynaków z Mostków koło Suchedniowa pomogła trzem uciekinierom z fabryki Hasag w Skarżysku. Żydów wyprowadziła z zakładu jedna z córek Jedynaków, Helena. Byli to: Alexander Szmul Moksel, Henryk Szerman i Feliks Zygereich. Dwóch z nich ukrywało się u Jedynaków do końca wojny.
Olek pracował w gospodarstwie, podając się za narzeczonego Ireny Jedynak, siostry Heleny, która była łączniczką AK. Sąsiedzi przyznają, że nie ukrywał się nawet przed Niemcami…
Wszyscy ukrywani przeżyli wojnę.
W 1989 roku rodzina Jedynaków otrzymała medal Sprawiedliwych Wśród Narodów Świata.
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The Jedynaks family from Mostki near Suchedniów
The Jedynaks family from Mostki near Suchedniów helped the three refugees from the Skarżysko-based Hasag factory.
The two daughters Irena and Helena Jedynak were in the underground resistance – Irena belonged to the Home Army, she was a liaison officer. Helena, worked at Skarżysko Hasag and provided her sister with the inside-factory information. At the end of the war the factory was to be liquidated. A group of Polish workers promised the three Jews who also worked in the factory that that they would help them escape. However, the Poles did not come to the meeting place. Helena Jedynak decided to help the Jews and aid them in escaping from Hasag, she led them through the forests to the village she lived in – Mostki. Alexander Szmul Moksel, Henryk Szerman and Feliks Zygereich were supposed to stay in the village for a few days.
Helena and Irena’s brother Wacław Jedynak prepared a hiding place in the barn. Yet there was a problem – two Germans used the Jedynak’s house for their lodgings. They also used the barn as the weapons storage. This made it much harder to provide food for the Jews in the hiding.
It took some time before the Jedynak family to arranged another hiding place for Feliks. He moved to stay with a family in Łączna. Two other Jews remained in Mostki until the end of the war.
Olek Moksel was Irena Jedynak’s fake fiancé – he worked on the farm and was responsible for animals slaughter. Neighbours admit that he did not even hide from the Germans, and although the occupant-soldiers suspected that Olek was a Jew, Irena always denied it. Some neighbours believed Olek to be a member of the Polish resistance movement. No one knew that there were more people in the hiding with the Jedynak family.
They all survived the war, however stopped maintaining contact and relations with the Jedynaks.
In 1989 the Yad Vashem Institute awarded the Jedynaks family with „Righteous Among the Nations” medal.
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