Matylda Getter

Matylda Getter (25 February 1870 – 8 August 1968) was a Polish Catholic nun, mother provincial of CSFFM (Congregatio Sororum Franciscalium Familiae Mariae, Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary) in Warsaw and social worker in pre-war Poland.

She had founded over twenty education and care facilities for children in Anin, Białołęka, Chotomów, Międzylesie, Płudy, Sejny, Wilno and others.

During the Warsaw Uprising in the provincial house at Hoża St. 53, the sisters ran a paramedical station and a soup kitchen, later turned into a hospital.

Yad Vashem credits Mother Matylda with saving life of at least 40 girls on their website.

As the superior of the Warsaw Province of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, she took on the responsibility of obtaining birth certificates for the children and hiding them in the order’s educational institutions.