A Nanny’s Promise to Save a Young Boy during the Holocaust

Before the war, Catholic nanny Gertruda Babilińska cared for Michael Stołowicki, the young son of a Jewish family living in Warsaw. She remained loyal to the family when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. After Michael’s mother died, Gertruda risked her life to protect the five-year-old during the Holocaust. She secured false identification papers for him and hid him from the Nazis.

With Mother’s Day approaching, join us live on YouTube to learn about Gertruda’s sacrifices and devotion to raise Michael and fulfill his mother's dying wish.

Guest
Kyra Schuster, Lead Acquisitions Curator, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Host
Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Learn about other children who hid or changed identities like Michael did to stay safe during the Holocaust: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/conten...

Read about Germany’s unprovoked invasion of Poland that triggered WWII and upended the Stolowicki’s family and other Jews living in Poland: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/conten...

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