Maria Fedecka

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Maria Fedecka, Aniela - (Moscow 1904 - Warsaw on 21 December 1977) - was a social worker, member of KOR. During World War II she was an activist of Polish Underground and Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Wilno. During the German occupation she helped to save many Jewish children. In 1987, Maria Fedecka was honoured by Yad Vashem for the help she had brought to numerous Jewish children and their families. After the war in 1945, she took part in the "repatriation" action (displacement to Poland of those who did not want to abandon their Polish citizenship**) from Wilno. This time she hastened to come to the aid of those young people who were threatened with prison and deportation in the USSR. In PRL she lived mainly in Sopot (near Gdańsk in Poland**). In 1947 she took the initiative of creating, with Zdzisław Grabski and Michał Pankiewicz, the League for the Struggle Against Racism who was rapidly liquidated for political reasons. The League intake a small number of Polish intellectuals, who were aware of the moral threat for the country's renewal in the aftermath of Kielce and other anti-semitic incidents. In 70's she engaged on anti-communist opposition in PRL.

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  • Jędrychowska Anna - “Zygzakiem i po prostu”, (In zigzag and straight ahead ), Czytelnik,1965, p.320-321 and 338-339.
  • Kac Daniel - “Wilno Jerozolimą było - Rzecz o Abrahamie Sutzkeverze” (When Wilno was Jerusalem – in praise of Abraham Sutskever) Fundacja Pogranicze,16-500-Sejny 2003, ISBN 83-86872-51-9, p. 98-99 and 144-145.
  • Wawer Pola - “Poza gettem i obozem”, (Outside the ghetto and the camp). Wydawnictwo Myśl, Warszawa 1993, ISBN 83-85233-25-3, p. 96-97.
  • Wroński Stanislaw & Zwolakowa Maria, “Polacy i Zydzi, 1939-1945” (Poles and Jews, 1939-1945). Ksiązka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1971, p. 320.
  • “The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations, Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust, Poland.” Volume editors: Sara Bender and Shmuel Krakowski. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2004, p. 212.
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