Given name: Basia Family name: Helman

Her father had a furniture shop. Together with her parents in the ghetto, sent to a family on the 'Aryan side', the mother and her children (all of whom were Polish) liked her. Her real name - Ruta. On the 'Aryan side' passed off as Basia Osowska. After the war in an orphanage in Peterswalden.