A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - ANNA BOGDANOWICZ
27226 – this was the number tattooed on the forearm of Anna Bogdanowicz, sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in July of 1940 for helping a Jewish woman, Sarah Diller. From the moment the Germans invaded Poland, Anna took part in anti-Nazi underground activities. She obtained identity cards issued under false names for fugitives, people in hiding, partisans, and people of Jewish extraction. She was exposed by an informer on 6 September 1942, arrested, and sent to the camp, where she died on 13 June 1943. Sarah Diller survived the war and left Poland for Israel. Anna orphaned two children.
On 19 September 1983, the Yad Vashem Institute awarded Anna Bogdanowicz the “Righteous Among the Nations” title.
