Józef Chmielewski

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Józef Chmielewski (born 4 February 1878 in Sanok, died in 1957 in Cracow) is an engineer, a Polish entrepreneur who saved his workers from extinction in concentration camps.

Curriculum vitae

Chmielewski passed the matriculation in 1897 at St. George's Gymnasium. Anna in Cracow. In 1909 he was awarded the diploma of architect engineer at the Technical University of Munich. After returning to Poland in 1911 and 1912 he was the inspector of construction in Cracow. Then in 1916 he became the head of the National Building Society in Cracow. After his father's death in 1920, he took care of his mother and two younger sisters, who financially supported him for the rest of his life. He never married. During World War II he founded a company called "Barackenwerk", which was involved in the production of ready-made elements for the assembly of wooden houses. Poles, including artists and scholars, and Jews were employed there. At the end of his life he worked as a teacher at the State School of Industry in Cracow. After the loss of all property due to changes in the ownership and fiscal policies of the state, introduced by the communists after 1945, died of heart failure in 1957. Activity during the war

Thanks to a good knowledge of German, he created a prosperous company "Barackenwerk". It employed Jews and Poles, scholars and artists, often in fictitious posts, which protected them from being taken to concentration camps. The Jews performed the hardest work, were transported to the company from the Plaszow camp together with the workers of Oskar Schindler. They will pay for their work as a bowl of soup and a piece of bread. They worked on the so-called. Third square, where the railway was led.

In March 1943, at the initiative of entrepreneurs from Zabłocie a branch of the camp was established - it was to protect the prisoners from the commander of the camp Amon Göth and his colleagues. When the Germans decided to close the camp in Płaszów, Chmielewski tried to get his company incorporated into the management of the Todt Organization responsible for the construction and equipping of strategic military facilities. Employees of Chmielewski (about 200 Poles and 400 Jews) remained in Cracow and here they have been liberated.

The company was located in Krakow between Zablocie and Przemysłowa Streets. From the east bordered with the grain mill, and from the east with Oskar Schindler's enamelware factory. The main entrance was at Zablocie 21. After the war there was a cosmetics factory "Miraculum". Book

Chmielewski's history describes in his book The Lost List of Schindler's Neighbor, his niece Maria S. Młynarska. Bibliography

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