The family Gebethner was well known in Poland. Gustavo Adolfo had been the founder of one of the most important editorial - "Gebethner & Wolff". His grandson Tadeusz had other aspirations. It was the first president of the sport club "Poland" to be founded and the first captain of his football team. He played over 150 games as midfielder or defender. "Poland" attracted intellectuals, lawyers, actors, business people and poets. Unlike other sports clubs polish players also included Jews and members of other minorities. In 1925, when Maccabi Warsaw celebrated its anniversary, invited to Poland to participate in a tournament. Poland defeated 4 to 2 to a football team in Tel Aviv.
When Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, Tadeusz Gebethner joined the army as a volunteer and fought in the 102 Ulan Regiment. After the defeat, the regiment was interned in Lithuania. Tadeusz escaped from the prison camp and went to Vilna (Vilnius), where he found refuge in one of the libraries of Gebethner & Wolff. There they began their clandestine activities, which continued after his return to Warsaw. In this city the former footballer also became Savior of Jews.
In the summer of after surviving the massacre of Skawina, near Krakow-, Ludwika Abrahamer and 12-year-old Alina daughter, arrived in Warsaw where as homeless. In desperation, Abrahamer turned to an old acquaintance, a former manager of the publishing house Gebethner & Wolff. Unable to offer them shelter, he sent them to the House of Tadeusz Gebethner, who was then a member of the editorial. Despite not knowing them, he agreed to receive them. A few weeks later, they joined Ludwika´s husband, Solomon Abrahamer, who had escaped from the field of Skawina.
Tadeusz Gebethner, who considered the salvation of Jews as an obligation of humanity, accompanied Abrahamer to the Registry Office where assuming a grave personal risk he helped him to obtain an Identity Card under a false name. Moreover, when Abrahamer needed an urgent operation on one eye, Gebethner used their connections with the Polish underground movement to find a surgeon willing to come to his apartment and perform the operation in the light of a candle. One day, in 1943, the Polish Police arrested the Abrahamers. Before they were handed over to the Gestapo, Gebethner got their release in exchange for a large sum of money delivered to the police.
Tadeusz and his soccer team
In February 1944 both the Abrahamers and Gebethner were transferred to Hungary, which was then - before being occupied by Germany - considered safer than Poland. The family survived the Holocaust, immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. In 1981 Alina Abrahamer went to Yad Vashem requesting recognition for El Salvador of his family. Alina 's mother planted a tree in the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations in honour to the brave football player.
As a member of the Polish underground and a colonel in the army of Poland, Gebethner fought in the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 as commander of a sector near the Technological University. He was severely wounded in a clash and doctors had to amputate his arm and a leg, but in vain. Tadeusz Gebethner died due to his injuries on October 14, 1944 in a German camp near Magdeburg prisoners.
On October 2, Yad Vashem recognized Tadeusz Gebethner as Righteous Among The Nations
SEBASTIAN L 6 DISEÑO 2015 TEACHER: Cynthia Mauas