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Amalia Potenker and Blanka Rothschild

__ Amalia Potenker __ Amalia Risked her life to save almost a hundred other Jews. She hid under the false name of Felicia Milazewoeski, so that she would not get caught being Jewish. One day a German combat told her to give the order to an SS Officer to set of the bombs in the camp. However instead of following these orders she called the AK or Home Army to give the blueprints of the bombs to someone who could possibly help. She never gave the order to set off the explosions, all because she wanted to help someone live a day longer.

__ Blanka Rothschild __ Blanka lived in the Ravensbrueck Camp where she was beaten so violingly that she had broken ribs and permanent spine damage. She found a Russian Camp where the bandaged up her wounds and graciously gave her food to eat. At night two young girls where raped by the Russian officers. A polish man piled plankets on top of Blanka and layed on top of her all night so that she would not get hurt. On May 8th the Germans surrendered. Blanka walked all the way back to Lodz, to find that her house was still there. However, and man there would not let her in because he thought that she was a ghost. All of the Displaced people went to DP camps, there were four of them: American, Russian, French and British. Blanka bribed an officer with coffee to let her stay in the American camp so that they could contact her family in America. After about a year they found her family in Detroit.