Josef and Agata Armatys and their daughter Wladyslawa (Armatys) Flisak today received the highest citation medal awarded by Yad Vashem Martyrsand Heroes Remembrance Authority to Gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The Armatys family saved the lives of Moses Wurzel, his wife Helena, and their daughter Sally from the Nazis by hiding them in the attic of their house in Poland and elsewhere in the neighborhood for more than a year. The award was presented by Yoseph Kedar, Consul-General of Israel in New York, to Wladyslawa Flisak on her own behalf and that of her late father and her mother who lives in Poland. The ceremony took place at the Consulate General of Israel.
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