# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jozef-walaszczyk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:45:02.757Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jozef-walaszczyk"
name: "Józef Walaszczyk"
slug: "jozef-walaszczyk"
description: "Józef Władysław Walaszczyk was a Polish leatherworker and businessman who was declared Righteous Among the Nations in 2002 for sheltering Jews during the Holocaust. He has been described as a \"second Schindler\" or \"Polish Schindler\"."
tagline: "Polish Righteous Among the Nations"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C3%B3zef_Walaszczyk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1919-11-13"
deathDate: "2022-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.270014666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Γιούζεφ Βαλάστσικ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B2%D9%83%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "چوزيف والاسزكزيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Walaszczyk"
    title: "Józef Walaszczyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Walaszczyk"
    title: "Józef Walaszczyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Walaszczyk"
    title: "Józef Walaszczyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%96%D7%A3_%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%A6'%D7%99%D7%A7"
    title: "יוזף ולאשצ'יק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80722301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump