Col. Wladislaw Kovalski, one of the “righteous gentiles” who decided to share his fate with that of the Jews and settled in Israel, died today at his home in the Gedera settlement at the age of 75. Kovalski, who was in the Polish Army between the two World Wars, risked his own and his family’s lives to help Polish Jews during the Holocaust, hiding 49 of them in his home. He married a Jewish woman, settled in Israel in 1957 and worked for the Yad Vashem memorial institute.
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