Given name: Stanisława Family name: Bussoldowa

  • YES
  • Female
  • Stanisława
  • Bussoldowa
  • From Warsaw
  • Polish

  • During the war she was a midwife and collaborated with Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews). Together with Irena Sendlerowa she rescued Jewish children. She delivered births of hiding Jews and kept the babies at home. She also helped in organising documents and searched for Polish families which would accept Jewish children. She gave home to the few-months-old author and decided to bring her up.

  • medicine, care / social welfare, around the author

  • Compiled on the basis of Elzbieta Ficowska's text; pp. 234-236 (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mówia...(Children of the Holocaust Speak), vol. 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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