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Maria Aniela Fedecka (born 1904 in Moscow, December 21, 1977 in Warsaw) is a Polish social activist, member of the KOR, human rights activist. Curriculum vitae

She grew up in the intelligentsia of Grodno, where she studied medicine. In the interwar period connected with the left-wing environment of Vilnius. From 1936 to 1937 she cooperated in publishing the magazine "Po Prostu". The calling of her life was to hasten to the help of people socially, economically and politically discriminated. During World War II, in Vilnius in 1945, she tried to save young people at risk of imprisonment and evacuation to the USSR. At the same time, she was at the head of a group of women who saved Jewish children. She saved the lives of many Jewish children and families for what she was honored in 1987 by Yad Vashem in her tree of memory in Jerusalem, and the honorary and medal "Righteous Among the Nations." In the defense of human rights she showed incredible courage. When denouncing a neighbor to a house pp. Fede comes to the Gestapo agent. Maria instructs her daughter Basia to escort the Jewish girl to the garden, and she goes into a conversation with the Gestapo asking him if he can strok his own child with blood-stained hands from other children. He left in no time to return.

Maria Fedecka also persuaded the soldier of the German army, Mr. Hempel, to stop participating in the Nazi crimes. Hempel deserted from the Wehrmacht and came home. The Feds in Lebiod passed a report on the executions that took place in Vasiliszki. He received documents from Burchardt and he fled to Switzerland. Committed to work at ZR ZPP in Vilnius. In 1945, she was employed in the Repatriation Department, then seconded from the ZPP to work at the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland for Repatriation.

After the war, Maria Fedecka left Vilnius. She lived on the coast and here in 1947 she initiated with Zdzisław Grabski and Michał Pankiewicz a League of Struggle against Racism, gathering a small circle of Polish intelligentsia who in anti-Semitic provocations such as "Kielce incidents" and in nationalist attitudes saw the threat of democracy. The League was quickly liquidated due to political reasons. In the 1970s, she was involved in the activities of the democratic opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. Bibliography

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