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Obituary
Stasia was born as Hadasa Chajmowicz on November 24, 1930 to Wolf and Elka Chajmowicz in Warsaw, Poland. When she was 9 years old, Germany invaded Poland and changed her life forever. As Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, her family was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto.
In 1942 her father managed to smuggle her out of the ghetto and into the care of Maria Bortnowska, a section chief of the Polish Red Cross. As rumors spread …
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