Given name: Maria Family name: Rotblat (4)

(1)

The head of a pre-war boarding school for girls of the Centos (Central Organization for Orphan Care). She was a devoted tutor and mother of a ghetto fighter, Lutek (Lajb) Rotblat. She died in the bunker at Mila Street No. 18.

(2)

The headmistress of the boarding school for girls - Twarda Street No. 27. During the first week of August 1942 she got together with her pupils to Umschlagplatz. Thanks to J. Barski she managed to exit the Umschlagplatz together with all pupils.

(3)

The headmistress of a boarding school in the Warsaw ghetto and Lutek Rotblat's mother. After the action she lived at Muranowska Street No. 44, flat 35. During the action she lost her brother and his wife. Author of testimony 301-4061.

(4)

The head of the Jewish orphans' home at Twarda Street No. 27. She was led out from Umschlagplatz together with children by Nachum Remba. After she returned from Umschlagplatz to the home in Twarda Street she said: 'Now I have to prepare bags and winter clothes for the children, so that they don't freeze on the way when they will actually take us away'. And she did so. Then she again avoids taking away. She moved out together with her orphanage to Mylna Street No. 18. She was a beloved and regarded mother of the youth activist Lutek. After the great action she lived with her son at Muranowska Street No. 44 (she looked after Jurek Wilner there). During the uprising she hid in the attic, and then in the cellar of the house at Muranowska Street No. 44. She was taken out from the burning shelter together with Helenka R-S and Dolcia by her son Lutek. He took them to the bunker at Mila Street No. 18. During the Germans' attack on the bunker, Lutek gave her poison, and next he shot her and himself.

(1)

Adolf Berman, 'Wos der gojr hot mir beszert. Mit jedn in Warsze 1939-1942' ('What Has the Fate Prepared For Me. In Warsaw With the Jews In 1939-42')

(2)

Barski, Jozef, Przezycia i wspomnienia z lat okupacji (Experiences and Memoirs of the Occupation)

(3)

Rotblat, Maria; testimony 301-4061

(4)

Rufeisen-Schuepper, Helena Pozegnanie Milej 18. Wspomnienia laczniczki Zydowskiej Organizacji Bojowej (A Farewell in Mila Street No. 18. Memoirs of a Messenger of the Jewish Fighting Organisation)

(1) str.111, (2) [s., 31], (4) 41-42; 49;79; 99;106;109-110;116