Given name: Anna Family name: Kaczorowska

Pelagia and Szymon Kaniewski's daughter; born on 1 July 1889; during the war lived in Warsaw at Wspolna Street No. 12, flat 8; had a shop with women's and children's haberdashery; during the German occupation hid many Jews in her house - Tosia Libelsald, Irena Launberg, Halina Borowska, Janina Zakrzewska, Celina Zawistowska, Elzbieta Karsinska, Zosia, Maria, the Mitrenmacher family and many others; was like a mother to Irena Launberg - according to her 'Mrs Kaczorowska is a woman, who has never proven a coward, not even for a second, who was not afraid of any of the German's threats, ignored the German decrees proclaiming death penalty for keeping Jews, who has never, even for a moment, thought that she might pay with her life for her help towards Jews'; treated Tosia as her daughter - when she was taken away by the Germans, she despaired, cried and tried to find her after the war, deluding herself that she might still be alive; many of the Jews hiding in her flat called her 'ciotunia' ('auntie'); currently lives in Lodz at .............. Street No. 58, flat 8.