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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Polish resistance movement
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Gestapo
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political prisoner
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Tarnów
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Auschwitz
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Righteous Among the Nations
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Yad Vashem
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Jewish
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Nazi concentration camps
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Maria Kotarba
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Maria Kotarba
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1907-09-04T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
4 September 1907
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1956-12-30T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
30 December 1956
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1943-01-06T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
January 6, 1943
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September 18, 2005
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