Given name: Janina Family name: Palmowska

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  • Female
  • Janina
  • Palmowska
  • during the German occupation she helped Zofia Gleichgewicht and her family; she lived then at Koszykowa Street No. 50; she ran the administration of houses in the ghetto, thanks to which she had a pass and could freely move around the ghetto and serve as a messenger between organisations; he hid a Jewish child - Olga Wisby; after being arrested by the Gestapo her backbone was injured; a prisoner of Pawiak and the camps: Auschwitz, Ravensbruck and Neustadt Gleve; after coming back to the country, ill, with no money, she found her ill child and started her life from scratch; currently residing in Warsaw at Senatorska Street no. 22, flat 17; a widow - her husband died at Majdanek; son at university

  • activists, care / social welfare, Poles, hideout
  • her behawiour towards co-inmates (also of Jewish origins) can be confirmed by Zofia Haustwirt

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