Photo of rescuers Stefania (right) and Helena (left) Podgórska in the Polish city of Przemyśl in 1944.
In 1941–1942, Stefania, a Catholic Pole, supplied food to the Diamant family while they were imprisoned in the Przemyśl ghetto in German-occupied Poland. In summer 1943, she moved into a cottage with a large attic located at 3 Tatarska Street in order to hide Max Diamant and twelve other Jews. Stefania and her younger sister Helena continued to care for and hide these Jews until Soviet forces retook the city in July 1944.
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