The Community Synagogue in Sands Point on Sunday, Nov. 24, at 1:30 p.m., will host an event to honor a Christian Polish woman who saved a Jewish child, as well as members of another Jewish family.
The child, no longer a child, is Gloria Glantz. Glantz is a Port Washington resident and member of The Community Synagogue, who was born in Wegrow, Poland in 1939.
To save her life, her parents enlisted the help of a simple, righteous Christian family, Marianna and Michal Kowalczyk.
Gloria had a circuitous journey to America, living in four countries on two continents, and she always felt that she never properly acknowledged her rescuer.
With the aid of The Department of the Righteous Commission of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel, Gloria now has the opportunity to give thanks. The Commission has named Marianna and Michal Kowalczyk as “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jews at great risk to themselves and their family, granting them (posthumously) this title, with an honoring certificate and medal for their courage and caring. Their names will be permanently inscribed on the walls of Yad Vashem in Israel.
This event is co-sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, The Community Synagogue of Port Washington and the Polish American Museum in Port Washington.
The event is free of charge, however please indicate attendance by contacting The Community Synagogue at 516-883-3144 ext. 310 or visiting http://www.commsyn.org/A_Light_In_The_Darkness/.
