Stanislava Khrystoforova

Stanislava Khrystoforova was born in 1936 in the town of Mykolayiv in the Lviv region to a poor large family. Her father, Tadeusz Mlodnicki, worked at the local Roman Catholic church.

The war began. It was scary and hungry. At that time there were 4 children in the family. Stanislava was the oldest.

One day in July 1942, Tadeusz accidentally met a stranger on the street with whom he spoke. A new acquaintance said that he was a Jew Mordechai Saurgaft, who had fled the Yaniv ghetto in Lviv and was looking for a place to hide. Mlodnytsky offered his house, where he already hid 2 Jewish families – 6 people – under the workshop. He disguised everything with images and devotionals, which he had moved to his house from the church at the beginning of the war to save.

Tadeusz was well aware of the danger he posed to his family, but he left all the Jews in his house. Stanislava remembers how her father told her not to tell anyone.

His wife Stephanie was very afraid for the lives of her children, she feared that one of the neighbors would betray them. Soon she and her children moved to her parents in a neighboring village.

Tadeusz Tadeusz remained in his home and continued to care for those he hid, providing them not only with food and shelter but also supporting them mentally until the Nazis were expelled from Lviv region in 1944.

Thanks to that help, all seven Jews survived: Mordechai Saurgaft, Mendel Karen, Melchior Spiegner, Gedalia Ehrenzweig, Reuven, Dvora and Gitel Hasselnus.

After the war, Stanislava’s parents stayed in touch with Mordecai, who moved to America. It was him, who initiated the recognition of Tadeusz as the Righteous Among the Nations. Stanislava, the eldest of Tadeusz’s 9 children, received a diploma and a medal only in 2020.

On June 28, 1978 Yad Vashem recognized Tadeusz Mlodnycki as Righteous Among the Nations.