Given name: Maria Family name: Rotblatt

  • YES
  • Female
  • Maria
  • Rotblatt
  • 1943-08-05
  • Warszawa
  • The head of the Jewish orphans' home at Twarda Street No. 27. She was led out from Umschlagplatz together with children by Nachum Remba. After she returned from Umschlagplatz to the home in Twarda Street she said: 'Now I have to prepare bags and winter clothes for the children, so that they don't freeze on the way when they will actually take us away'. And she did so. Then she again avoids taking away. She moved out together with her orphanage to Mylna Street No. 18. She was a beloved and regarded mother of the youth activist Lutek. After the great action she lived with her son at Muranowska Street No. 44 (she looked after Jurek Wilner there). During the uprising she hid in the attic, and then in the cellar of the house at Muranowska Street No. 44. She was taken out from the burning shelter together with Helenka R-S and Dolcia by her son Lutek. He took them to the bunker at Mila Street No. 18. During the Germans' attack on the bunker, Lutek gave her poison, and next he shot her and himself.

  • care / social welfare
  • Rufeisen-Schuepper, Helena Pozegnanie Milej 18. Wspomnienia laczniczki Zydowskiej Organizacji Bojowej (A Farewell in Mila Street No. 18. Memoirs of a Messenger of the Jewish Fighting Organisation)

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