Given name: Maria Family name: Rozenberg

Born in Warsaw as Franka Brodaty; in 1919, married Izak Rakower; mother of Pola and Amka; owner of several tenement houses in Warsaw (Smocza Street No. 8, Kimcia Street No. 83, part of Zamenhofa Street No. 12, Nalewki Street No. 15 and others) and co-owner (with her husband) of a shoe shop of Cyrulinski company in Wierzbowa Street No. 9; during the war - in the Warsaw ghetto; she lived respectively: in Nalewki, Leszno, Chlodna, Ogrodowa and Zelazna Streets. She worked in a shop in Muranowska Street. During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, she hid in a bunker. On 3 or 5 May 1943, the Germans discovered it and she was deported from the ghetto. She jumped out of the train and, after a short period of hiding in the country, she returned to Warsaw. Next, she lived in Grodzisk and surrounding villages. She worked as a religious (Catholic) education teacher in a country school. After the liberation, she lived in Warsaw. She administered 17 deserted Jewish houses, worked in the Security Office as a translator and in the Jewish Committee in the registration department. In October 1946, she illegally left for Israel. She remarried Aharon Rozenberg. She founded a scholarship for students of the 'Jawne' Gymnasium (junior high school) in Holona, studying the Holocaust subject-matter. She testified in Yad Vashem Archives in 1971.