Given name: Julia (Julianna) Family name: Larisz

a Polish woman, a close friend of Chana's cousins, in love (mutually) in their oldest son. In her flat in Praga, at Brzeska Street No. 7, she prepared a hideout for them. Next to the flat entrance there was a door leading to a dark room. The door was perfectly covered and blended in with the wall. Unfortunately, Julia did not manage to take the whole family of friends from the Warsaw ghetto. When she came to take them it turned out that all but the youngest Pawel had been taken by Germans. In the hideout then there lived Pawel and his acquaintances: two married couples, each with one child. After some time Chana and Samek with mothers also lived there. Apart from them Julia hid a 7-member Jewish family - the Miedzyrzeckis. The Jews survived two years in Julia's flat. Julia had to work very hard to feed all the people in care. Nobody refused her anything, either because of her beauty (she was a very beautiful woman, fair-haired, sometimes taken for a Volksdeutsch) or thanks to the fact that she was the owner of a butcher's shop. One day the Gestapo entered Julia's flat. She was lucky also this time and even the Gestapo functionary who led the search made friends with Julia. They arranged a meeting in.... her butcher's shop. But all the hiding ones had to be taken out of the flat as soon as it was possible. Since the outbreak of the uprising nobody has met either Julia or Pawel. 6 of the Jews hidden in Julia's flat died. Samek and Chana's mothers got out (from the uprising?) with the Poles.

Chana's story