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Before the war, many of the Jews knew about the Bilecki family, so they turned to them for help and on the night of June 6th, the eve of Shavuot, 23 Jews arrived on their doorstep. The family took them in and built a bunker for the Jews to hide out of sticks and twigs, and that's where the courageous events began.

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They were then liberated on April 1, 1944 by the Red Army and the Jewish survivors were freed.

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They ran to bunkers that the Bilecki family had taught the Jews how and where to build their bunkers. Julian Bilecki and his family were waiting for survivors to emerge from the prison with a year worth of food.

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When it began to snow, in order not to give up the Jews hiding, he would jump from tree to tree carrying mushrooms to not create any footprints in the snow.The mushrooms kept the Jews alive for about a week until the Bilecki's were able to find the next Jewish hideout after being discovered not once, but twice.

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Oscar Friedfertig, one of the survivors, said that Bilecki and his family were God's people" and another survivor Sabina Grau Schnitzer said "They deprived themselves and risked their lives". They were extremely grateful for Bilecki's acts, but Bilecki humbly said "All I did was help". Showing his true Heroism and will to help.

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A picture of their ghetto.

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How did the Jews meet Julian and his family?

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How did the Jews meet Julian and his family?

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Between 1942 and 1943, about 3000 Jews were taken to Zawalow, Poland where majority were slain. After the deaths, only about 100 survived and they were moved to the Podhajce ghetto where the Bilecki family resided.

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"All I did was help" words spoken by Julian Belicki after being reunited with 5 of the survivors he had helped save.

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The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Reunion 1998

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Julian Bilecki was a Polish farmer born 1928 in Podhajce, Eastern Galicia. He lived with his father, Eugeniusz Bilecki, sister, Anna Kifor, and cousin Roman bilecki, who had played a role in assissting hiding the Jews.

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Julian Bilecki saved 23 Jews as a teenager in the Holocaust in Poland. Bilecki was able to achieve this by picking mushrooms for the 23 to eat. One morning in the winter of 1943, about 25 Jews escaped into the woods in an act of survival.