Given name: Jadwiga Family name: Benklowa (3)

  • (1, 2, 3) YES
  • (1, 2, 3) Female
  • (1) Jadwiga , (2) Jadwiga
  • (1) Benklowa , (2) Benklowa , (3) Benklowa
  • (2) Baumberg
  • (1) spring 1942, (2) 11 August 1942, (3) 1942
  • (1, 2, 3) Warszawa
  • (1, 2, 3) No information
  • (1)

    Collaborator of Zofia Szymanska since 1940. A worker of the Centos (the Central Organization for Orphan Care). A doctor and a wife of a famous lawyer. She committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill, probably in the spring of 1942.

    (2)

    Attorney Benkl's wife, who was taken to a camp by Germans in the first months of the war. During the First Action she lived with her brother in Chlodna Street. During the blockade of the street on 10 and 11 August 1942 she was taken to the Umschlag. She commimted suicide.

    (3)

    A doctor, Maria Rotblat's friend. She committed suicide during the First
    Action.

    • (1, 2, 3) physicians
  • (1)

    I was only a doctor

    (3)

    Rotblat, Maria; testimony 301-4061

  • (1) s. 133, 169, (2) 98,100