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Stupnicka Janina (Wójcik); Daughter: Anna

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Stupnicka, Janina Bando-Stupnicka, Anna Janina Stupnicka, a teacher, was employed during the German occupation managing and registering residential buildings, including buildings in the Warsaw ghetto area. In the course of her work in the ghetto, her twelve–year-old daughter Anna,often accompanied her, and the two of them smuggled bread into the ghetto in their handbags and distributed it to starving Jews. In 1941, Stupnicka, with the active assistance of her daughter, removed eleven–year-old Liliana (Lilka) Alter from the ghetto. From then until the end of the war, the Stupnickas kept the orphaned Jewish girl in their home and met all her needs. For some time, they also gave temporary refuge to Ryszard Grynberg, the son of pre-war acquaintances, who stayed in their apartment until Stupnicka provided him with forged “Aryan” documents. She did the same for Mikolaj Borenstein, a Jewish doctor for whom Stupnicka arranged a job and who visited the Stupnicka apartment almost every day to eat, bathe, and rest. After the war, the survivors testified that the Stupnickas provided their assistance, including food and acquisition of documents, without remuneration and for purely humanitarian motives, and were fully aware of the danger their actions involved. After the war, the Stupnickas and the Jews they had rescued remained in close contact. On September 19, 1984, Yad Vashem recognized Janina Stupnicka and Anna Bando nee Stupnicka as Righteous Among the Nations. File 2693
details.fullDetails.last_name
Stupnicka
details.fullDetails.first_name
Janina
details.fullDetails.maiden_name
Wójcik
details.fullDetails.date_of_birth
28/02/1901
details.fullDetails.fate
survived
details.fullDetails.nationality
POLAND
details.fullDetails.religion
ROMAN CATHOLIC
details.fullDetails.gender
Female
details.fullDetails.profession
TEACHER
details.fullDetails.book_id
4017706
details.fullDetails.recognition_date
19/09/1983
details.fullDetails.ceremony_place
Warsaw, Poland
details.fullDetails.commemorate
Wall of Honor
details.fullDetails.ceremony_in_yv
Yes
details.fullDetails.file_number
M.31.2/2693