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Stefania Podgórska

born in Lipa on 1921 – died in Los Angeles on 2018
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Stefania Podgórska grew up in a Catholic farming family. She began working in a store owned by the Jewish couple Lea and Izaak Diamant in Przemyśl in 1938.
In 1939 the Wehrmacht occupied parts of Przemyśl, taking over the whole city in June 1941. Lea and Izaak Diamant were persecuted and had to move into the ghetto with their three sons in 1942. Stefania Podgórska defied a ban to take food to her former employers in the ghetto, until they were deported in 1943.
Stefania Podgórska found a hiding place for Maksymilian, one of the Diamants’ sons, in the attic of a vacant house. She and her seven-year-old sister Helena moved into two small rooms directly underneath the attic. In 1943 Maksymilian Diamant and six Jewish friends were able to escape to the prepared hiding place. Stefania Podgórska took in another seven Jews, and provided for them all until their liberation in July 1944.
In 1945 Stefania Podgórska married the rescued Maksymilian Diamant, who adopted the name Józef Burzminski. In 19

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Przemysl, Poland… 1942 – Stefania Podgorska lived with her family in a village near Przemysl. She moved to Przemysl before the outbreak of the war and found work with the Diamant family who was Jewish. The Diamant family treated Stefania like a daughter and she moved in with the family when the Germans occupied Przemsyl on September 15, 1939. The abuse and murder of Jews began within days of the German occupation.

Przemysl was located in the part of Poland that was to be occupied by the Soviet Union as part of the division of territory agreed to under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. On September 28, 1939, the Soviets occupied Przemysl. Under the Soviets, the lives of the Jews changed greatly. When the Germans reoccupied Przemysl on June 28, 1941, there were about 16,500 Jews in the city.

With the German occupation of Przemysl, life for the Jews became increasingly difficult. A series of anti-Jewish edicts were announced. On July 16, 1942, a ghetto was established and the Diamant family was forced into the ghetto. Stefania remained in contact with the two brothers, Munio and Hen

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Podgórski sisters

Polish Righteous Among the Nations

The Podgórska sisters, Stefania Podgórska [Wikidata] (June 2, 1925 – September 29, 2018) and Helena Podgórska [Q109648858] (1935 - December 5, 2022), came from a Catholic farming family living near Przemyśl in south-eastern Poland.^[1] During the Holocaust, sixteen-year-old Stefania and her seven-year-old sister harboured thirteen Jewish men, women and children in the attic of their home for two-and-a-half years. Both were later honored as the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem as well as by the Jewish and Polish organizations in North America, for their wartime heroism.^[2]

Before the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Stefania Podgórska (Born June 2, 1925, in Lipa - Died September 29, 2018, in Los Angeles) worked in a grocery store owned by the Diamants, a Jewish family.^[3] Her father had died in 1938 after an illness. Soon after the arrival of the Nazis, her mother and brother were taken to Salzburg for forced labor, while the D