The lawyer Henryk Woliński lived in Warsaw. After the city was captured by the Wehrmacht in 1939, he went underground. From February 1942 Woliński led the Jewish department of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) resistance organization’s information and propaganda office, under the pseudonym “Wacław.” He gathered information on German crimes against Jews and passed it on to the Polish government-in-exile in London. Woliński was an intermediary between the Home Army and Jewish resistance groups in the ghettos. He obtained forged work permits and accommodation for Jews who had escaped from ghettos. Woliński was also involved in the founding of the Żegota aid organization. He took care or around 300 people in hiding for the organization.
In 1974 the Israeli Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem honored Henryk Woliński as Righteous Among the Nations.