Gorska Andrzeja
Andrzeja Górska
born 1917
Recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations:
27 October 1997
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Story of Rescue
October 2007, Monika Czekanowska
During the war, Sister Andrzeja Górska, of the Ursuline Order, actively participated in rescuing Jewish children. She had a secret order from her superiors, by which she was to seize the children being escorted out of the ghetto and place them in the orphanages ran by the Ursulines. If a boy or girl was in danger in one institution – Sister Andrzeja was to take this child to another. For this, she regularly obtained false documents issued by both church and state to children and adults, with the help of the Żegota Council for Aiding Jews.
The Sisters of the Ursuline Order ran two orphanages during the war. One was in Warsaw, at the address Tamka 30. One of the girls who lived there was Hanka Litwińska-Avrutzky, rescued from the ghetto in 1943. The second orphanage was in Brwinów near Warsaw. Among the thirty or so children at least several came from Jewish families. The sisters had other homes for minors as well, in Zakopane and Milanówek.
After the war, it was discovered that the sisters had custody of more than thirty Jewish children, who eventually ended up in Israel. Sister Andrzeja’s service was described in the book by Zofia Rozenblaum-Szymańska, MD, entitled I Was Just a Doctor.
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“Recalling Forgotten History for Poles who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust,“ Warsaw 2007
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A designated area of a city in which Jews were permitted to live. Ghettos were sometimes surrounded by a wall and had gates that would be closed for the night, and were sometimes called "Jewish cities" or "Jewish quarters". The term "ghetto" probably was probably first used in the sixteenth century, though its origins are unclear. The most popular theory speculates(...)
Ghetto
A designated area of a city in which Jews were permitted to live. Ghettos were sometimes surrounded by a wall and had gates that would be closed for the night, and were sometimes called "Jewish cities" or "Jewish quarters". The term "ghetto" probably was probably first used in the sixteenth century, though its origins are unclear. The most popular theory speculates(...)
Warsaw
[Yiddish, Varshe, Varsha, Varshoy]
The earliest Jewish settlement in Warsaw dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the first half of the fifteenth century, Warsaw had a "Jewish Street", synagogue and cemetery. The first mention of Jews being expelled from the city dates back to 1483. In 1527, Sigismund I the Old confirmed Warsaw's de non tolerandis Judaeis privilege,(...)
Żegota
Żegota: a cryptonym of Temporary Committee to Aid Jews (Tymczasowy Komitet Pomocy Żydom), later of Council to Aid Jews (Rada Pomocy Żydom – RPŻ) – a conspiratiorial organisations aiming at the provision of various forms of help for Jews. RPŻ was formed on 4 December 1942 in Warsaw as a section of Government Delegation for Poland (Delegatura Rządu na Kraj) – Polish civil underground.(...)
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