After the war , David Friedman remained in Kielce . He stayed at the Planty 7 Street refugee centre in an orphanage run by the Zionist Union . It was the site of the Kielce pogrom of 4 July 1946 in which 37 ( 40 ) Polish Jews ( 17 – 21 of whom remain unidentified ) and 2 ethnic Poles died , including 11 fatally shot with military assault rifles and 11 more stabbed with bayonets , indicating direct involvement of the Stalinist troops ( according to the official findings of the Institute of National Remembrance ) . Friedman relocated to Kraków , then to Chrzanów , learned Yiddish , and emigrated to Israel in 1947 . Forty-four years later in 1991 , Leon 's parents , Bolesław Śliwiński , who died in 1949 , and Leonia Śliwińska '' née '' Berendt , who died in 1978 , were bestowed titles of the Righteous in Israel . Leon Śliwiński received his title on 23 May 1993 in Warsaw . In 1996 David invited Leon to Israel . They were elated to see each other . When asked , why he risked his own life to rescue David , Leon replied , " I just wanted him to live . I knew that all others were being deported to their deaths . " Leon Śliwiński died in Kielce on 12 February 2012
Kielce pogrom
Kielce pogrom
Kielce Ghetto