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Maria Andzelm lived in Janowiec, Poland and lived on a farm. She was a Catholic teacher who grew up in Nazi Germany. She was a great cook a talented knitter and a natural homewrecker. The recognition Maria received was for the part she played, as a young teenager, helping two Jewish men escape from the Nazis.

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Cece, Matt. “Maria (Andzelm) Kershenbaum - Thompson Memorial Home.” Thompsonmemorial.net, 2017, www.thompsonmemorial.net/obituaries/210-maria-andzelm-kershenbaum. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

“Story of Rescue - the Andzelm Family | Polscy Sprawiedliwi.” Sprawiedliwi.org.pl, 2015, sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/stories-of-rescue/story-rescue-andzelm-family.

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She was raised with a human spirit, believing and demonstrating a connection to others. Maria received the Yad Vashem Medal and Certificate of Honor and was chosen as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations" by the Israeli government. This is awarded to a non-Jewish person who risked his or her life, freedom, and safety to save Jews from the threat of deportation or death.

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Heroes of the Holocaust; Maria Andzelm By:Shad Gettman Authors Purpose The author's purpose was to inform the reader about a girl and her family who was courageous enough to hide some Jews during World War Two. Conflict Maria Andzelm's story is full of conflict, external and

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What happend to Maria Andzelm after the war was over.

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What happend to Maria Andzelm after the war was over.

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After immigrating to the United States in the early 1950s, Maria and her husband Moses lived in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and in 1968, they relocated to the Red Bank area where they owned and operated the Monmouth Cigar and Stationery Store for 14 years.

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Meha'Ghetto - Songs from the Ghetto & Holocaust Days

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When world war 2 came along and the Nazis invaded Poland her family was under Nazi occupation. Her actions were very restricted in what she could do. One day her father told her they were going to be hiding two Jews so that they could avoid the concentration camps. Their names were Mojez Kerschenbaum and Izrael Szwarcwort. They worked hard digging a hole in the ground to hide the Jews. They fed them what little they had during the days and told them of news they had about the war at night.