Doctor, head of the laboratory at the Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital, member of the Jewish Combat Organization.
Before the war, Teodozja Goliborska ran a private medical laboratory on Kredytowa Street, where she also lived. After the outbreak of World War I, she was relocated to the Warsaw Ghetto, where she headed the laboratory at the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital . From February 1942, she worked on a team of doctors researching starvation disease in the Warsaw Ghetto. She studied the resting metabolic rate of starving people and the morphological profile of blood in starving children. She was one of only a few co-authors of publications on starvation disease who survived the war. In mid-1942, she managed to escape the ghetto and hide on the so-called Aryan side.
Teodozja Goliborska-Gołąb | Virtual Shtetl
Goliborska-Gołąb was a member of the ŻOB and actively participated in the resistance movement. She saved, among others, the head of the Jewish section at the Home Army Headquarters, Henryk Woliński, codename "Wacław." Among other things, funds for Home Army activities were stored in her apartment.
After the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, she took refuge with other ŻOB members in a bunker in Żoliborz, from where she was evacuated in November 1944 by a team organized by the staff of the Polish Red Cross hospital in Boernerów. After the war, she emigrated to Australia and settled in Melbourne, where she continued her medical practice. She died there on June 4, 1992, and was buried.
