Given name: Bernarda Family name: Unknown

  • YES
  • Female
  • Bernarda
  • From Warsaw

  • A nun from the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, from the cloister in Wronia Street. She risked her life to save Jews, finding them a place to stay in cloisters, institutions and private homes. In September 1943 Halina A. found in the cloister a long queue of Jews waiting to see the nun. Halina was sent to another place, where she got food, clothes, and a paid job. When sister Bernarda was denounced she left the cloister - she had to hide from the Gestapo.

  • church

  • 'A tall, slim nun with a very beautiful face.'

  • s. 158 -160