The lawyer Stanisław Dobrowolski lived in Krakow. After the city was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in 1939, he went underground. When a Krakow section of the underground organization Żegota (Council to Aid Jews) was formed in March 1943, Dobrowolski was made its director. He coordinated the aid activities in Krakow and surroundings, and maintained contact with Żegota’s central office in Warsaw. He supported Jewish forced laborers as well as Jews in hiding outside the ghetto. He also organized escapes from the ghetto and took action again denunciators. Clandestine meetings of Żegota took place in his office.
After the war Dobrowolski founded the All-Polish League to Combat Racism (Ogólnopolska Liga do Walki z Rasizmem), which as the successor organization to Żegota aimed to fight antisemitism in Poland. He became a member of parliament for the Polish Socialist Party and a member of the National Council. In 1979 Dobrowolski was honored by the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.