Pediatrician, doctor at the children's hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto, liaison officer of 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 Jewish "Yehudiya" 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 she then returned to Warsaw. In March 1940, she began working as a pediatrician at the Berson and Bauman Children's Hospital, and in the autumn of 1941, she was transferred to the hospital's branch in Leszno Street. On January 5, 1943, she crossed over to the so-called Aryan side. She became a liaison for the Jewish Combat Organization and a courier recommended by Marek Edelman. Among other things, she organized assistance in escapes from the ghetto, obtaining documents, searching for apartments, carrying weapons, distributing money, and gathering information about labor camps for the Coordination Committee. From April 1943, she lived in Warsaw under the so-called Aryan papers as Irena Meremińska. In the summers of 1943 and 1944, she also temporarily lived in Międzylesie. During these years, she worked in the Central Welfare Council community center at the Salesian monastery in Powiśle, and during the Warsaw Uprising, she worked in hospitals on Miodowa and Mokotowska Streets. On October 11, 1944, she evacuated Warsaw, escorting a group of wounded to Milanówek. She lived to see liberation in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. On January 25, 1945, she began working at the Central Committee of Polish Jews as a pediatrician and pediatrician. She received her diploma from the Medical Academy in Łódź on April 17, 1951. Until her retirement, she worked as a doctor in various medical centers in Łódź, Łagiewniki, and Szczecin, initially as a physiopediatrician and, after 1968, as a school doctor. She died of cancer in Łódź and was buried in the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw. In 1988, she wrote her memoirs, which were published in 1994 under the title "And I Don't Remember Anything More".
