Wanda Lurie

Wanda Felicja Lurie née Podwysocka (born May 23, 1911, died May 21, 1989 in Warsaw) – health care worker, teacher and charity activist.

She was the wife of industrialist Bolesław Lurie and lived with her family in Warsaw's Wola district, in the Wawelberg Colony.

On August 5, 1944, being eight months pregnant, she was herded with her three children and hundreds of residents of nearby houses to the „Ursus” factory at 55 Wolska Street.

There, the Germans and their eastern collaborators committed a mass crime of genocide, among the dead were also Wanda Lurie's three small children.

[3] After the end of the war, she testified[4] as a witness before the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw.