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Sister Matylda Getter: the woman who saved hundreds of Jewish kids during WWII

Mother Matylda Getter, from the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Mary Family, risking her own life, saved several hundred Jewish children sentenced to extermination by the German occupiers.

 

On February 25, 2020, the President of the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland, Dr. Jarosław Szarek, paid a tribute to the heroine at her resting place in Stare Powązki in Warsaw.

Matylda Getter (1870-1968), superior of the Warsaw Province of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, saved several hundred Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto and other places in German-occupied Poland. In the provincial house in Warsaw and in over 60 monasteries and care facilities of the congregation, they received shelter, care and food as well as new documents.

“Whoever comes to our yard and asks for help in the name of Christ, we must not refuse,” repeated Sister Matylda. The entire assembly and hundreds of other people were involved in saving Jewish children, despite the risk of death punishment by the German invaders for that.

Mother Matylda Getter was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal by the Yad Vashem Institute for her activities.

Source: niezalezna.pl

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