Rescuers of Jews
Valenta Bronius
BRONIUS VALENTA
During the German occupation, Bronius Valenta was a student at the Vilnius School of Horticulture and Gardening. At that time, forced laborers from the Vilnius Ghetto, mostly women, worked on the school grounds. B. Valenta, along with a group of students, covertly supported the ghetto inmates by providing them with food, sharing parts of their own breakfasts or lunches. One day, when he saw policemen beating and terrorizing women on the school grounds, Bronius Valenta organized a group of students who actively opposed the violence. At his request, a Jewish girl named Mira Kaniščiker was employed as a secretary-translator at the school. Everyone in the school knew about her ethnicity but did not betray her.
In 1999, Bronius Valenta was awarded the Life Saviour’s Cross.
During the German occupation, Bronius Valenta was a student at the Vilnius School of Horticulture and Gardening. At that time, forced laborers from the Vilnius Ghetto, mostly women, worked on the school grounds. B. Valenta, along with a group of students, covertly supported the ghetto inmates by providing them with food, sharing parts of their own breakfasts or lunches. One day, when he saw policemen beating and terrorizing women on the school grounds, Bronius Valenta organized a group of students who actively opposed the violence. At his request, a Jewish girl named Mira Kaniščiker was employed as a secretary-translator at the school. Everyone in the school knew about her ethnicity but did not betray her.
In 1999, Bronius Valenta was awarded the Life Saviour’s Cross.