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Stefanie Fintel was born June 8, 1924 in Warsaw, Poland to Maximilian, a physician and Ernestine, a dentist, Blauzeid. Her father was killed before Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Her mother moved with Stefanie, her sister and grandmother into the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942, she jumped off a train headed to Treblinka and hid in the Carpathian Mountains. When the war ended, she attended dental school in Germany. In 1959, she married Nathan Fintel, a Holocaust Survivor whose wife died in 1957, leaving him with a 2 year old daughter, who she raised as her own.

 

Stefanie Fintel

Warsaw, Poland