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Barbara Makuch Barbara Makuch, born in 1923 is now 86 years old. Barbara was brought up in Poland since she was 8 months old and she lived with her mother and sister. When she was young, a German soldier shot her father. Barbara’s family was one of the poor ones, so she went to college and got a job as a school teacher in Poland. One day a woman named Rachel Litowicz came to Barbara’s door and asked if she could keep her daughter here until the Nazi’s were gone. Barbara agreed and then word spread and more and more Jewish children came to live with her. One day when she was on the train, German soldiers came and searched through everyone’s bags and found important papers in hers that involved underground organizations. They took her to jail for a while, and then straight to concentration camps. She survived and saved some other Jews also. Her role in the Holocaust was a rescuer: someone involved in protecting or freeing individuals from Nazi persecution. This was her role because she took in random peoples children to save them from being killed. She also moved to make sure that the kids were safe and that the people in her new town would have no hint that those kids are being held for other families. By her taking in all these children, she risked her life and saved all of theirs by keeping such a good secret and not having neighbors find out about them. __ Important events in her life: __ 1939- Making an application to Warsaw University Hitler’s army invaded Poland Father got shot by a German soldier. 1942- Rachel Litowicz came to her door and asked her to keep her daughter safe 1943- Barbara arrived at a camp called Ravensbruck 1945- The war ended and she got to leave camp after 2 years of it

[] Weber, Ellen Land. "SYNOPSES OF THE STORIES ." __To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue__. 26 Oct. 2004. 6 May 2009 .
 * To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue**

BARBARA SZYMANSKA MAKUCH TELLS HER STORY [] Weber, Ellen Land. "BARBARA MAKUCH." __BARBARA SZYMANSKA MAKUCH TELLS HER STORY__. 27 Oct. 2004. 6 May 2009 .

CONDITIONS FOR THE JEWS IN POLAND [] Weber, Ellen Land. "Chronology of Some of the Anti-Jewish Measures in Poland." __CONDITIONS FOR THE__ __JEWS IN POLAND__. 26 Oct. 2004. 6 May 2009 .