{"id":12579,"date":"2018-11-20T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzeumtreblinka.eu\/informacje\/kazimierz-milobedzki\/"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:02:41","slug":"kazimierz-milobedzki","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/muzeumtreblinka.eu\/en\/informacje\/kazimierz-milobedzki\/","title":{"rendered":"Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki Kazimierz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki was born on 10 October 1919 in Soko\u0142\u00f3w Podlaski. In 1938, he started working in Warsaw as an apprentice at the Magistrate Court. When the war broke out, in accordance with the recommendations of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP) authorities, he went east with a group of scouts. This group was to reach W\u0142odawa and perform auxiliary service there. The group did not reach W\u0142odawa, but only Che\u0142m Lubelski, where it performed various auxiliary functions. On the order of the scouting authorities, when the army withdrew from Che\u0142m, he returned to Soko\u0142\u00f3w. When the Germans issued an order that everyone should appear in their places of work, he went to Warsaw. Since he was one of the youngest court employees, he was not re-employed.<\/span><\/p>\n

In April 1941, Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki returned to his hometown. From 1 July, he received the job of the district administrator in the Litigation Trust of Secured Estates. This institution mainly dealt with Jewish estates. For this reason, he received a pass from the Office of Employment (Arbeitsamt) to the ghetto, thanks to which he was able to move freely around the city and take five Jews with him. His office was located in a building on D\u0142uga Street, to which there was an entrance from the ghetto and the Polish district. Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki\u2019s duties included collecting the rent from everyone living in the ghetto and outside. Two Jews worked in his office: Perec Bocian \u2013 as the messenger, and Go\u0142da Hochberg.<\/span><\/p>\n

He used the opportunity to help Jews so effectively that he was the only inhabitant of Soko\u0142\u00f3w to receive the medal of the \u201cRighteous Among the Nations\u201d awarded by the Israeli Yad Vashem Remembrance Institute on 30 April 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhoever saves a life saves the world\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki saved Dr Holcer\u2019s cousin, Go\u0142da Hochberg and Perla Morgensztern from extermination.
\n\u2022 Before the liquidation of the ghetto, Dr Holcer approached Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki with a request to send his cousin, who came from \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, to the so-called \u201cforced labour\u201d. She had fake identity card in the name of Korczak. Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki did not refuse to help and took her to Warsaw, and the next morning he escorted her to Skaryszewska Street, where there was an assembly point.
\n\u2022 Thanks to the help of his colleagues from the Office of Employment, Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki arranged for Go\u0142da forced labour in Germany under the name of Franciszka Drewicz. She worked in an ammunition factory in Berlin in the district of Niederscheneweide Berlinerstrasse 24.
\n\u2022 Another rescued person was Perla Morgensztern, the granddaughter of Soko\u0142\u00f3w\u2019s rabbi. Perla was a friend of Jan Wronkowski\u2019s wife, an employee of the local government administration and the secretary of the Korczew commune. Perla belonged to the working party in Szczeglacin and she occasionally visited her friend Wronkowska in the camp, who was from Korczew. During one of these visits she lingered so long that she stayed there for the night. If it wasn\u2019t for that she would have been killed that night, because the next day a whole group of four hundred Jewish workers were murdered in Szczeglacin. Jan Wronkowski gave her birth certificate in the name of Genowefa G\u0142owacka, and Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki obtained a letter of referral for her to forced labour in the Third Reich.<\/span><\/p>\n

All three women survived the war. After the war Go\u0142da Hochberg and Perla Morgensztern returned to Soko\u0142\u00f3w. Go\u0142da as a minor was taken care of by the International Jewish Organisation, which sent her to the United States. Perla married the last rabbi from Siedlce, Newman, and also left for the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, it should be added that Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki supplied bread and food to a working group moved from the village of Czerkwisko to Szczeglacin. He also supported Jewish families in the ghetto by supplying them with food, especially potatoes, vegetables and, if possible, milk for children. This was possible due to the fact that his father, Stanis\u0142aw Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki, owned a farm.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Council for the Righteous Among the Nations at the Yad Vashem Institute of National Remembrance awarded Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki with a medal and an honorary diploma for selfless help to Jews during World War II, and his name was immortalised on an honorary plaque in the Park of the Righteous Among the Nations on the Hill of Remembrance in Jerusalem. At this point, it is worth quoting the words of Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki himself that explain what his selfless help involved: \u201cI have never expected any reward. I did it all out of humane reasons only\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1945, Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki took an active part in organising the troops in Soko\u0142\u00f3w. After the end of the war he worked as the head of the \u201cRuch\u201d delegacy in Soko\u0142\u00f3w, then in the WZGS \u201cSamopomoc Ch\u0142opska\u201d in Warsaw and Soko\u0142\u00f3w. He passed all levels of the troop hierarchy. He also participated in national scouting events (e.g. the World Scouting Meeting in Spa\u0142a in 1938 and the World Scouting Meeting in Gniezno in 2000). He was a member of the Scouts Command, for many years he chaired the Scouts Audit Committee. He was a member of the Audit Committee of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association Troop in Siedlce and the Troop Historical Committee. As an efficient organiser in many camps, he served as a quartermaster. On 17 July 2007, Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki died at the age of 88 and was buried in the cemetery at Chopin Street in Soko\u0142\u00f3w Podlaski.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is worth seeing a film dedicated to Kazimierz Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki, which was shot by the \u201cU Siebie\u201d Foundation operating in Soko\u0142\u00f3w Podlaski. You can watch the film on the website: http:\/\/www.civispolonus.org.pl\/mapa\/mapa.html<\/span><\/p>\n

The materials were prepared on the basis of:
\n1. Rodzina Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzkich [in:] Soko\u0142owskie biografie ed. K. Matysiak, part II, Soko\u0142\u00f3w Podlaski 2006, pp. 87-89
\n2. K. Mi\u0142ob\u0119dzki, Wspomnienia z getta w Soko\u0142owie<\/i> [in:], Bulletin 15, Soko\u0142\u00f3w Podlaski 2003, pp. 39-43
\n3. \u201cPie\u015b\u0144 ujdzie ca\u0142o\u2026\u201d Historia i legendy ziemi soko\u0142owskiej<\/i>, ed. Wies\u0142awy Kwiek, Soko\u0142\u00f3w Podlaski 2008, p. 225
\n4. Information sent by Mrs Katarzyna Markusz from Soko\u0142\u00f3w Podlaski<\/span><\/p>\n

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