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Stefania Podgorska

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Stefania Podgorska

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    1. Stefania Podgorska By Elena

    2. • Born in 1925 to a Catholic family in Lipa, Poland • Mother took care of her eight siblings • Father worked on their farm • Siblings: Stanislaus, Michal, Olga, Marvsia, Kazia, Angia, and Helena •1939: Moved in with her sister in Przemysl

    3. Stefania (Continued) • The Diamants: Jewish family Owned a grocery store Worked at this grocery store at age 14 • Really close relationship with the family • Moved in with the Diamants when the Germans invaded Poland

    4. The Przemysl Ghetto Diamants- forced to the ghetto in 1941 Stefania: No longer could live with them 16 years old Left to take care of her 6 year old sister, Helena Found an apartment for them to live in outside of the ghetto Began trading clothing for food Risked her life supplying food to Jews in the Przemysl Ghetto Hardships Living in the Ghetto • The Germans required Jews to perform forced labor for the German Reich • Education and religious activity was forbidden

    7. The Liquidation of the Ghetto In 1942, the ghetto started to be liquidated Stefania: decided to help some of the thousands of Jews escape She and her younger sister moved into a cottage for more space

    9. 13 Jews Stefania: Created a secret space in the attic Hid 13 Jews in this space Fell in love with a man, but rejected him because she feared that it would endanger the Jews she was saving The small cottage was on a deserted street, but in the concluding months of the war, that changed The building across the street was made into a hospital a lot of traffic and Nazi soldiers right outside the door

    11. “The penalty for noncompliance is death." Stefania ran through every street in the town after she had been ordered to leave, but no place found could shelter 15 people All of the Jews told her not to stay and that she had already done everything she could do to save them All thirteen of them said to me, "Run away. You don't have to die with us. We have to, but you don't have to die with us. You cannot help us anymore. Save your life and your little sister and run away, because you still have 10 minutes." Joseph pushed me. They said, "Run away. Don't die with us. You cannot help us anymore. What you could do you did, but not now. Save your life and Helena. Go. Run away.” The 17-year-old refused to leave them, instead she began to pray When the SS soldier came back he told her that it was good she didn’t move because they only needed to take one room Stefania Podgorska had saved 13 lives that day

    12. Afterwards 1n 1994, the area of Przemysl was liberated, and all 13 of the Jews that Stefania helped save, survived the war. Stefania moved to the United States in 1961, with her husband, Josef Diamant.

    13. Reflection This project taught me that many people during the Holocaust risked their own lives attempting to rescue Jews. Stefania Podgorska was only 16 years old when she began her mission to save some of the Jews who were being liquidated from the Przemysl Ghetto. The fact that she did this made me question whether or not I would do the same thing. When you are that young you don’t usually try to do something so dangerous, especially when the punishment is death. When I learned that she brought her younger sister into the situation also, I was shocked. Before doing this project I don’t know if I would’ve ever even tried to sneak food into the ghettos to help, but I changed after this project.

    14. Works Cited 18 May 2010 <http://file.podgourski.net/yuri/Stefania2.gif>. Drucker, Malka. Photograph. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?ModuleId=10006455&MediaId=3079> Florida Center for Instructional Technology. The Ghettos. <http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/timeline/ghettos.htm>. Ghettos. 1 April 2010. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005059>. Hidden in Silence (1996). <http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=468195&atid=0>. Holocaust Encyclopedia . <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/idcard.php?ModuleId=10006455>. Podgorska. <http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=stefania+podgorska&go=&form=QBIL&qs=n&sk=#focal=3a5868bed4e2498888c90df4ae20200e&furl=http%3A%2F%2Ffile.podgourski.net%2Fyuri%2FStefania.jpg>. Schroeder, Sarah. Stefania Podgorska: Glogster. February 2010. <http://princessteddybear.glogster.com/stefania-podgorska/>.

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