Zofia Baniecka Thesis

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The Holocaust was the horrible death of 6 million Jews that took place during World War II. Hitler and his army planned to terminated all jews that came to Auschwitz. Hitler was almost fortunate, him and his army killed two-thirds, or 6 million jews. Although the Holocaust was about Jews being killed, there were also people who risked everything to help rescue Jews. There was one person who was different from all other “Holocaust Heroes” and her name is Zofia Baniecka.

Zofia Baniecka was an only child. Her father was a sculptor and her mother was a teacher. She was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1917 and had a good childhood mostly because she was spoiled. Zofia was not religious even though she went to a school for catholics and there was a lot of jews at her school, although it wasn’t until the war stated that she figured out who was jewish. Zofia’s life was affected tremendously when World War II started. (“Rescuers: Zofia Baniecka - Shtetl- FRONTLINE”.) Zofia and her mom started hiding jews, guns, and ammunition in their large apartment that they received from the Underground, In 1941 during the winter. When the apartment got occupied, Zofia found another place for some of the jews to go to. When the war ended, her and her mom saved about 50 jews between the years of 1941 - 1944. (“Zofia Baniecka, Poland”.) …show more content…

People they know took Zofia and her mom in their large apartment and they were given the living room to live. Zofia and her mom were given their own apartment by the underground and they started to work to provide themselves and the jews that they were going to be rescuing . (“Rescuers: Zofia Baniecka - Shtetl- FRONTLINE”.) In 1940, Zofia and her mom and dad were told to move because their house was in the Warsaw ghetto. (“Passion Blog - Alison

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