Frymel Family

Until 1942, the Frimel family lived in the township of Denkow  near Ostrowiec. It is known by our project at this time, the story of 2 brothers, Chaim and Moshe. Their father was a bookeeper of the local hardware/buildint supply  store owned by "Asher Yosef".

Upon the liquidation of the local ghetto in October of that year, the brothers Chaim and Moshe Frimel were deported to a labor camp in nearby Bodzechow.

When the camp was liquidated in February 1943, the brothers succeeded in escaping from the transport and returned to Denkow, where they appealed for help to the Adamczyk family, with whom they had been friendly while still in the camp.

At their parents’ behest, the daughters of the family, Jadwiga, Lucjanna and Helena, and son, Jan-Jacek, had regularly smuggled in food to the Frimels across the barbed-wire fence, and the brothers were warmly received when they arrived. A bunker was dug under the floor of one of the rooms, and the brothers hid there until their liberation by the Red Army in January 1945.

All the members of the family jeopardized their lives to protect the Frymels and therefore the brothers managed to survive  the Holocaust

Yad Vashem recognized the family as Righteous Among the Nations. See the full story on this page for more details.

Chaim moved to Israel after the war and passed away in 2019. Moshe moved to Montreal Canada after the war and passed away in 1989.

---excerpted and edited from Yad Vashem website along with research done by the Jews of Ostrowiec Memorial Project.