Teresa Prekerowa

Teresa Prekerowa, also Teresa Preker née Dobrska (30 December 1921 in Zapusta – 19 May 1998 in Warsaw)[1] was a Polish historian and author of Konspiracyjna Rada Pomocy Żydom w Warszawie 1942-1945 (Żegota in Warsaw 1942-1945) published in 1982 during the communist military crackdown in the Polish People's Republic.

Following the Soviet takeover and later, during the darkest days of Stalinism in Poland she worked at Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN founded in 1951.

[1] Following the publication of her (already expanded) book about Żegota in 1982, in 1985 she received the title of Polish Righteous Among the Nations;[3] Prekerowa wrote that during World War II she had run into a little girl on the street from the Warsaw Ghetto and brought her to a Catholic convent, nonetheless, she never told anybody about it including her own parents.

[5] Following the collapse of the Soviet empire, in 1992 she published Zarys dziejów Żydów w Polsce w latach 1939-1945,[6] and in 1995 received the award from the Polish PEN Club.

[7] Notably, Prekerowa was never in Żegota;[7] nevertheless, her contribution to general knowledge about the Polish-Jewish relations in World War II from the Polish 'non-Jewish' perspective is considered substantial.