Given name: Maria Family name: Ochlewska

A daughter of Binijumin (who died at the beginning of the war) and Perla Horn, nee Lindenbaum. Real name: Estera. Together with her mother, they were in the Chelm Ghetto from where they ran away at the end of 1942. Until winter 1943, they are hiding in various villages nearby. Then, her mother and a group of Jews stay in the nearby forests where all of them are killed. At this time, the author stays at the Strus family's place in the village of Plawanice. Due to food problems, she leaves the household and, with Leokadia Wojtkiewicz's help, she goes to Warsaw, to Joanna and Karol Kulesza. After the Uprising in 1944, she is deported from Warsaw. She stays in Klaudym, then due to scarlet fever in the nuns' hospital in Laski, in the hospital in Pruszkow and finally she is transferred to Cracow. There, she is adopted by Tadeusz and Janina Ochlewski.

Compiled on the basis of Maria Ochlewska's text, pp. 244-246, (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mówia...(Children of the Holocaust Speak), vol. 1