Maria Kotarba, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Maria Kotarba

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1907

Place of Birth: Poland

Date of Death: 30-Dec-1956

Profession: resistance fighter

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Maria Kotarba

  • Maria Kotarba (4 September 1907 — 30 December 1956) was a courier in the Polish resistance movement, smuggling clandestine messages and supplies among the local partisan groups.
  • She was arrested, tortured and interrogated by the Gestapo as a political prisoner before being imprisoned in Tarnów and then deported to Auschwitz on January 6, 1943.
  • Maria Kotarba was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on September 18, 2005 for risking her life to save the lives of Jewish prisoners in two Nazi concentration camps.

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