Given name: Mariia Teresa Family name: Zielińska

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  • Female
  • Mariia Teresa
  • Zielińska
  • 1927-00-00
  • 1927
  • Warszawa

  • She was born as Dora Borensztajn. Before the war she lived with her family in Warsaw at Zelazna Street No 79 flat 12. At the end of October 1940, without previous planning, by chance she escaped from the ghetto to the 'Aryan side'. Initially she lived with an acquaintance - Janina Przybysz, later at Aleksander and Maria Jozwinski's flat. From 1940 not revealing her real identity she stayed in a reform school at Zytnia street and later at Hetmanska Street No 44. After having been recognized by a neighbour she was forced to change the place of living. From June 1943 she stayed in the Nuns' reform school in Czestochowa.

  • children, survivors

  • Compiled on the basis of Maria Teresa Zielinska's text; pp. 133-134, (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mówia... (Children of the Holocaust Speak) volume 1

  • Several dozen brief biographies and reminiscences of the children of the Holocaust which describe the reality of the occupation. Stories of the youngest eye-witnesses from all over the country. They describe their daily struggle for survival, resistance to the occupier's terror, family tragedies, deaths of family members. Some testimonies deal with the pre-war times, others with post-war days. Brief biographies of those who mainly stayed in Poland after the war. Two of them were sent from Israel.

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