Given name: Masza Family name: Putermilch

Her father was a merchant, who had a leather goods workshop, her mother was a member of the Bund since she was young. Masza went to a CISzO (Central Jewish School Organization) elementary school, later to an ORT (Society for the Propagation of Labor among Jews) vocational school. At the end of 1939 she left for Miedzeszyn and worked in a sanatorium Medema in a sewing room until the Warsaw ghetto was liquidated. She returned to Warsaw on her parents' request. They lived at Nalewki Street No. 47. She bought up old clothing, which belonged to the dead, her father unpicked them and dyed, Masza sewed and her mother sold them. During the First Action her mother was deported, Masza and her father worked in saddler's shop. Her father was deported during the kettle. Masza joined the fighters. Masza bought up things for the workers on detail to earn her daily bread. Not long before the January action she joined the fighters. She fought in Gruzalc combat group in Zamenhofa Street, left through the sewers on 10 May, taken with the group to the forest in Lomianki. Later, she was in a partisan unit in forests near Wyszkow. After half a year she fell ill and returned to Warsaw. She took part in the Warsaw Uprising. After the surrender she hid until the liberation. In March 1945 she left with her husband for Israel via Romania.