Today, the Museum hosted a lecture by Dr Janusz Kłapeć, who presented the figure of Stefan Sendłak.
Stefan Sendłak was born in 1889 in the village of Podtopole, near Zamość. He fought in the 1920 Polish-Bolshevik War. During the Second Polish Republic, he was actively involved in protecting the rights of workers, farmers and people in the most difficult situations. Between 1926 and 1939, he served as a councillor on the Zamość City Council on behalf of the Polish Socialist Party.
From the beginning of the occupation, he was involved in the resistance movement. He created the Lublin-Zamość Committee for Aiding Jews, which provided support to 272 people. He then became the head of the Field Department of the "Żegota" Council for Aiding Jews. His activities covered many places in occupied Poland, including the labour camp in Lublin's Lipowa Street, where Polish Army soldiers of Jewish origin were held. In 1944, he took part in the Warsaw Uprising as the deputy regional delegate of the Government in Region III (Śródmieście-Północ). After the war, he was persecuted by the communist authorities. He died in 1978. In 2020, he was posthumously awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
