Given name: Maria Family name: Ostrowska

  • YES
  • Female
  • Maria
  • Ostrowska

  • During the war she helps the author's family. As long as she could do that, she used to come to the ghetto and help within bounds of her own possibility. From Autumn 1942 to winter 1942/43, she gives shelter to the author, whom she introduces as her own niece.

  • around the author, care / social welfare

  • Compiled on the basis of Joanna Kaltman's text, pp. 61-66, (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mówia...(Children of the Holocaust Speak), vol. 1

  • Several dozen of brief biographies collected among members of the Association 'Children of the Holocaust in Poland' ('Dzieci Holocaustu w Polsce') describing the reality of the occupation.

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