Given name: Pesa Family name: Ruża

  • YES
  • Female
  • Pesa
  • Ruża
  • Zofia Kamińska
  • From Warsaw
  • She hid as Zofia Kaminska; a relative of both Kornblums; together with Adam they jumped off the train 3 kilometres before Treblinka. They miraculously managed to hide in Wozniak's flat, they had no money when they arrived at his house. They hid there for two months between December 1942 and February 1943; they lived with Wozniak as Mr and Mrs Kaminski, although they were not married yet; doctor Golecki visited them there, he cured them of typhus; she died.

  • Aid to Jews hiding from Nazi terror. The escape of the fortunate from martyr's death Written on 1 May 1946 roku in Warsaw. Fragments collected and compiled by Boleslaw Fabjanowicz, in co-operation with Stanislaw Wozniak. Original, longhand. 7 pages, 210 x 295 mm., in Polish.
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