Given name: Gina Family name: Klepfisz

  • YES
  • Female
  • Gina
  • Klepfisz
  • Kazimiera Jóźwiak
  • December 1942
  • Warszawa
  • No
  • From Warsaw

  • Before the war she acted in Zukunft in Praga with Wladka, organised a children's group. Loved by her foster children. At the end of her live she worked as a nurse. As a hospital employee she rescued people from the Umschlagplatz risking her own life. Once a Jewish policeman caught her red-handed. He fired her. Crossed to the 'Aryan side' together with her brother, sister-in-law and 1-year-old child. The author, her brother and sister-in-law attended Gina Klepfisz's Christian funeral. At the cemetery they met Jankiel Celemenski, hanka Aleksandrowicz and Zygmunt. Among the ten mourners only Anna Wonchalska and Marysia Sawicka were Christian.

  • activists

  • Serious and cheerful at the same time, loved by children. Warm, friendly and composed in difficult situations. Died in a hospital on the 'Aryan side.' The funeral on 5 December 1942.