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The Podgórska sisters, Stefania Podgórska [Wikidata] (June 2, 1925 – September 29, 2018) and Helena Podgórska [ Q109648858] (born 1935), came from a Catholic farming family living near Przemyśl in south-eastern Poland. [1] During the Holocaust, sixteen-year-old Stefania and her seven-year-old sister harboured thirteen Jewish ...
The sisters hid the 13 Jews in the attic of the cottage. Stefania worked in a factory and used all of her salary to purchase food for the 13 Jews the sisters were hiding. Helena took away their body waste, washed their clothes, helped prepare food, and stood guard.
For two years During World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland, teenaged Catholic girl Stefania Podgórska and her younger sister Helena provided secret refuge in the attic of their home for thirteen Jews, rescuing them from near certain death at the hands of the Nazis.
What is The Stefania Podg órska. Foundation? What do we do? What we need? Recent Events. Temple Sinai of Glendale. On Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ed Burzminski and his daughter Mia shared the story of Stefania, Helena and Max at Temple Sinai in Glendale, CA.
Beginning in 1942, the orphaned Catholic sisters Stefania, 16, and Helena Podgorska, 9, hid 13 members of the Diamant family in the attic of their home in Przemysl in southeastern Poland. Stefania had worked in the Diamant family’s grocery store before the Nazi invasion of Poland.
During World War II in Przemsyl, Poland, Stefania (known as Fusia to her friends – pronounced “foosha”) and her younger sister Helena hid thirteen Jews in an attic for two years, rescuing them from certain death by the Nazis. A true Holocaust heroine, Fusia said she did not consider herself a hero.
The Podgórska sisters, Stefania Podgórska and Helena Podgórska, came from a Catholic farming family living near Przemyśl in south-eastern Poland. During the Holocaust, sixteen-year-old Stefania and her seven-year-old sister harboured thirteen Jewish men, women and children in the attic of their home for two-and-a-half years.
