https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4 en-us 2023-02-09 20:28:21 UTC 2025-09-26 19:49:34 UTC hello@padlet.com afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475603484 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. ]]> 2023-02-09 20:29:00 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475603484 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475611673 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.

]]> 2023-02-09 20:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475611673 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475627680 2023-02-09 20:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475627680 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475630834 2023-02-09 20:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475630834 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475644826 2023-02-09 21:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475644826 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475644985 2023-02-09 21:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475644985 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475758166 2023-02-10 00:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475758166 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475761824 "All I did was help" words spoken by Julian Belicki after being reunited with 5 of the survivors he had helped save.]]> 2023-02-10 00:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475761824 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475766718 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. ]]> 2023-02-10 00:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475766718 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475767309 A picture of their ghetto.]]> 2023-02-10 00:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2475767309 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2476549026 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.]]> 2023-02-10 15:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2476549026 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2476559071 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.]]> 2023-02-10 15:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2476559071 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2476560049 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. ]]> 2023-02-10 15:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2476560049 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2476560796 They were then liberated on April 1, 1944 by the Red Army and the Jewish survivors were freed.]]> 2023-02-10 15:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2476560796 afutu235 https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2476565099 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.]]> 2023-02-10 15:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/afutu235/uxsizimdbvsoqzl4/wish/2476565099