Strasburger Hanna (Komierowska)

File 5507 STRASBURGER, HANNA During the war, Hanna Strasburger, a widow since 1923, lived in Konstancin, near Warsaw, with her children, Edward and Anna, her sister Teresa, and Teresa’s son, Wojtek. From 1930 to 1936, the Likiernik family also lived in Konstancin. In autumn 1939, the head of this Jewish family, Tadeusz, a Polish army officer, was taken as a prisoner of war. His wife, Wanda, who possessed “Aryan” papers in the name of Mrs. Malinowska, managed to escape from Warsaw and arrive in Konstancin. She headed to Hanna’s home, and Hanna agreed to shelter her, despite the danger caused by the fact that many locals knew Wanda and that she was Jewish. Wanda stayed with Hanna from early 1943 until the liberation in January 1945. In the meantime, her son, Stanisław, was hiding in Warsaw and protected by “Aryan” papers. After the war, Wanda’s husband, who survived imprisonment and internment in camps, settled in Paris. There, he found Stanislaw, who had fled to France after fighting as a member of the Armia Krajowa in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Wanda later joined them there. On November 3, 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Hanna Strasburger as Righteous Among the Nations.