Stefania podgorska autobiography
I was born in , in a small village in Poland.
A powerful novel from a New York Times Bestselling author, based on the remarkable true story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews in her....
Podgórski sisters
Polish Righteous Among the Nations
The Podgórska sisters, Stefania Podgórska [Wikidata] (June 2, 1925 – September 29, 2018) and Helena Podgórska [Q109648858] (1935 - December 5, 2022), came from a Catholic farming family living near Przemyśl in south-eastern Poland.[1] During the Holocaust, sixteen-year-old Stefania and her seven-year-old sister harboured thirteen Jewish men, women and children in the attic of their home for two-and-a-half years.
Both were later honored as the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem as well as by the Jewish and Polish organizations in North America, for their wartime heroism.[2]
Before the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Stefania Podgórska (Born June 2, 1925, in Lipa - Died September 29, 2018, in Los Angeles) worked in a grocery store owned by the Diamants, a Jewish family.[3] Her father had died in 1938 after an illness.
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