Stefania podgorska biography of donald
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Stefania Podgorska Burzminski, who hid 13 Jews in her attic in Poland, dies at 97
(JTA) — Stefania Podgorska Burzminski, who as a teenager hid 13 Jews in an attic in Poland for two years during the Holocaust and married one of the Jews she rescued, has died.
Burzminski died on Sept. 29, at the age of 97 and was buried on Oct. 13 in Los Angeles, where she lived.
Beginning in , the orphaned Catholic sisters Stefania, 16, and Helena Podgorska, 9, hid 13 members of the Diamant family in the attic of their home in Przemysl in southeastern Poland. Stefania had worked in the Diamant family’s grocery store before the Nazi invasion of Poland.
The Diamants remained in the attic for two-and-a-half years and survived the Holocaust. In , the Podgorski sisters were honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust authority. The film “Hidden in Silence,” directed by Richard A. Colli, was based on their story.
Born in Lipa, Poland on June 02, , Stefania moved to Przemys
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Sisters Reunited With Jews They Saved From Nazis : World War II: Unlikely protectors were youngsters when they hid 13 people in a cramped Polish apartment.
Cesia Miller looked at the pages of Reader’s Digest and realized almost immediately that the story in front of her was about the two sisters who had saved her life all those years ago.
There were the names, Stefania and Helena Podgorska, and the story of how the young girls had saved so many during the German occupation of Poland. It told of how they had hidden 13 Polish Jews for two years in a single room and a cramped attic, of how they had scrounged for food and risked their lives so often to keep them all alive.
It had to be them, Miller thought, the ones she had been seeking for almost 50 years--the teen-ager and her 7-year-old sister who somehow hid the 13 until the Russian army arrived near the end of World War II.
“It has been like trying to find a rock in the ocean,” Miller said. “But it was a thrilling end. inom read t
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[Jesus] entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”—Luke
When Poland was invaded by the Nazis early in World War II, Stefania Podgórska was only fourteen years old, while her sister, Helena, was ten years younger. Their father had died in , and their mother and brother were conscripted as forced laborers for the Nazis. Stefania worked as a clerk in a grocery store owned by a Jewish family until they were removed to a Jewish ghetto. As the Holocaust became increasingly terrifying, t