Adina Blady-Szwajger (1917-1993)
A pediatrician, a doctor at the children's hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto, and a liaison for the Jewish Combat Organization. She was born in Warsaw. Her father was from Russia, while her mother came from an assimilated Polish Jewish family. After graduating from the "Yehudiya" Jewish high school for girls in 1934, she began medical studies at the University of Warsaw, but her completion was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. In early October 1939, she set off eastward and stayed in Lviv until December, from where […]