PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Marie Sidi Stojka
Marie was 18 when she got married to Karl Stojka. Marie was Roman Catholic and her ancestors had lived in Austria for more than 200 years. Marie had 6 kids. They lived in a caravan and they were used to the freedom. There wagon was parked into a wooden house, Marie had to learn how to use a stove instead of an open fire. One year later the Germans took her husband away, a few months later the Germans returned her husbands ashes. Marie watched over her kids in a terrible place. But her youngest son died over typhus. Marie was deported to Ravensbrueck. After the war she was reunited with her 5 surviving kids.
Sarah Judelowitz
Sarah Gamper was one of four children born to a Jewish family in the Baltic port city of Liepaja. At the outbreak of world war 1, Sarah was studying piano at a conservatory in Russia. During world war 1 Sarah remains as a nurse. She returned to Liepaja after she married Herman Judelowitz. They had 3 daughters named Fanny, Jenny, and Liebele. Sarah and Herman were Zionists and often helped collect money for Jewish settlers. July 1941 Herman was murdered by the Germans in a nearby village. For 2 years Sarah and her daughters managed to avoid deportation. On arriving the deportees were divided, 8 year old Liebele was sent with the young. Sarah would not abandon Liebele and followed her. Sarah and Liebele were never heard from again.
Odon Jerzy Wos
Odon was the 3rd of 4 child born to Roman Catholic parents in Warsaw. When Odon was 8, the family moved to comfortable apartment located near the royal castle and Vistula River. In 1932 Odon started to attend grade school. In September 1938 Odon began secondary school. Odon's father advised him to study German in addition to French. September 1st 1939, the day school began, the Germans attacked Poland. For 4 weeks they bombed Warsaw. There were corpses and blood everywhere. On September 29 Warsaw surrendered. Odon tied a 50 pound sack around his chest and crawled 6 hours to Old Town and 4 hours back. After 63 days they surrendered on October 3rd. Odon was taken to a POW camp in Austria, and escaped to go to Switzerland on April 20, 1944. Then joined Polish troops fighting with Allies in France.
