The Polish Tatar Jan Chazbijewicz lived with his wife Rozalia and their four children Emir, Leon, Ali, and Stefan in the village of Orda Tatarska (now Orda, Belarus). The family ran a large farm. Immediately after the German invasion of Belarus in June 1941, the occupiers began systematically persecuting Jews.
From the end of 1942, Jan Chazbijewicz hid the Jewish woman Franciszka Loss and her children Regina and Adam on his farm. Loss had been on the run with the children since her husband Grzegorz’s murder during a raid in the Baranowicze ghetto (now in Belarus). So as not to endanger their helpers additionally, they only stayed with them for short periods. They hid in the forest or fields during raids. The neighbors guessed that the Chazbijewiczs were helping persecuted Jews but did not betray them. The Loss family managed to survive until the Red Army’s arrival in the summer of 1944.
Jan Chazbijewicz was arrested by the Soviet secret service in 1944, but released after several months. The Chazbijewicz and Loss families emigrated to Poland in 1945 and remained in contact.