Balwina Piecuch: A Real Hero

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“Where the rest of us see a stranger, a [hero] sees a fellow human being."- Samuel Oliner. Samuel Oliner was a jew living in a town in poland. One day Nazis came to his town and gathered them in trucks and took them to the forest and killed all of them. Samuel hid in different farms and barns. Oliner eventually left his hiding place and headed into the countryside. After three nights sleeping rough he knocked on the door of a Catholic woman, Balwina Piecuch, who had known his family before the war. At great risk to herself and her family, she took him in, helped him create a false identity and hid him from the Gestapo. Balwina Piecuch is a real hero because she risked her life for someone she didn’t even know without even

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