Zygmunt Edel

A construction engineer, born on 4 April 1909 in Lviv, in the family of Mendel Edel, a clerk, and Fania Spiegel.

On 23 May 1944, 35-year-old Zygmunt Edel was arrested and transferred to the 3rd police commissariat. At the time of his arrest, his wife Ewa Tugent, a 4-year-old child and all relatives had been killed.

According to the case file, he almost immediately recognized that he was a Jew:

"I am a Jew, I was married and had one child. I was educated in Lviv as a construction engineer and I constantly lived here. When the ghetto was arranged, I lived in the ghetto.

During one action, my wife and child were taken to the concentration camp, and I continued to live in the ghetto. At that time, I worked at the company Piziak (Ostbahn, Lviv), and, as a Jew, I had my own documents there. During my work at the Piziak I did not hide, because, as a Jew, I still could work. From the spring of 1943, when companies were forbidden to keep Jews as workers, I was hiding in the ghetto until it was eliminated."

Then he got out of the ghetto and went to Stefania Cieplik, a Polish woman, who lived on Zielona Street 29. When interrogated, Zygmunt claimed that the house owner did not know he was a Jew and that they were not personally acquainted. According to Edel, he paid her 100 zloty per week for accommodation and meals. Zygmunt had some modified documents, where he removed his previous surname, using a solvent,  and printed a new one, Zygmunt-Bronisław Przyborowski. He spent almost a year in Cieplik's apartment.

In early May 1944, the owner of the apartment was forced to go to the West during the evacuation, and Zygmunt could no longer hide in the apartment. About two weeks before his detention, he left the apartment and got a job of a retoucher at the photographic studio of the Werbeinstitut Galizien company on Akademicka Street 2 (now Shevchenka Boulevard). At night, he was hiding from the police in houses destroyed by earlier bombardments on Szpytalna Street and on the Św. Teodora square.

Soon, one of the company's employees, Mikołaj Kostiuk, a Pole, betrayed Zygmunt to the police and received a share of valuables taken from​ him:

"Mikołaj Kostiuk, a Pole, turned to the police for a reward due to anyone giving away a Jew (or information about one). A few days later, on 2 June 1944, Kripo investigator sergeant Mikołaj Czernik, questioning the neighbours of Stefania Cieplik, confirmed Edel's testimony and the fact of her being evacuated."

The detainee was taken to the Janowska concentration camp. His fate is unknown.