Dąbrowska Stefania

Dąbrowska, Stefania In late 1943, Miriam Kurc’s grandparents managed to smuggle their three-year-old granddaughter out of the Vilna ghetto into the care of a Polish acquaintance, who obtained “Aryan” papers for her. Since the Polish acquaintance was unable to look after her, she handed little Miriam over to a friend, Stefania Dąbrowska, who owned a farm in the village Arvydai, near Vilna. Despite the danger, Dąbrowska, guided by selfless, humanitarian considerations, looked after Miriam and raised her as her daughter, without expecting anything in return. In July 1944, when Miriam’s grandmother came to collect her, she found her granddaughter safe and sound. After the war, Miriam and her grandmother moved to an area within the new borders of Poland and later to Israel, while Dąbrowska moved to Warsaw. On December 28, 1996, Yad Vashem recognized Stefania Dąbrowska as Righteous Among the Nations. File 5953