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STEFANIA STEFANIA (FUSIA) (FUSIA)

PODGORSKAPODGORSKAWAS BORN WAS BORN IN 1925 IN IN 1925 IN

LIPA ,POLANDLIPA ,POLAND.

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Artifact 7Przemysl, Przemysl, PolandPoland

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Stefania stayed in a Stefania stayed in a small apartment because hersmall apartment because her

6-year-old sister was6-year-old sister was dependent on her.dependent on her.

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Resued ones

There was aGerman hospitalacross the street

From her apartmentAnd one room was occupied

By German soldiersWhile Jews lived there

In secret.

Artifact 12Podgorska hid 13Jews in a small

Apartment in Poland.

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Stefania worked for a Jewish

woman named Mrs.Diamant

who had four sons. Stefania

later married one

named Joe.

Stefania Insert Artifact Picture Here

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Stefania was born a Catholic near Przemysl.

She worked for the Diamants- a Jewish

family who owned a grocery store. She

worked for them until they got sent to a

concentration camp.

Przemysl, PolandPrzemysl, Poland

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Stefania stayed in a Stefania stayed in a

small apartment because hersmall apartment because her

6-year-old sister was6-year-old sister was

dependent on her. They laterdependent on her. They later

moved to a cottage for moremoved to a cottage for more

room where they hid the Jews.room where they hid the Jews.

Stefania’s younger sister

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Josef and Stefania were married for 59

years. He was a dentist and one of the

first to perform dental implants in

Poland.

Josef Burzminski Insert Artifact Picture Here

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Stefania worked in a factory to support the thirteen completely dependent Jews, herself, and her little sister. Her husband, Joe, built a fale wall in the attic so the Jews could be hidden during a raid.

Jews she saved Insert Artifact Picture Here

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