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World War II began when Miriam was six and living in Lodz, Poland. Her family was relocated to the Warsaw Ghetto and then to the Ozarow Ghetto by the Nazis, but Miriam's parents were able to sneak her out. She was first taken into custody by a family friend, Cesia. That was until on the train from Ozarow, Cesia found Maryla Dudeck, a Catholic Pole, who assumed custody of Miriam but wasn't aware that Miriam was Jewish at the time.

In Lwow, Miriam lived in hiding with Maryla until she was detected as Jewish by the other children. This caused them to have to move to Czudek and then to Wola Rzedzinska, which is where Miriam lived with a Catholic family. There she was raised Catholic and wanted to be baptized and receive communion, but her priest had apparently suspected her true background and wouldn't baptize her. Instead, her priest devised a scam procedure to make it seem like she met the requirements to not expose her. Despite this, she was still exposed by some of the village people and had to flee to Hucisko, a village where Maryla's sister, Zosia Rumak, lived. After that, she was placed with a couple in the nearby village of Stykow but when it was revealed in church that she hadn't been baptized, she expected repercussions and fled back to Hucisko and lived with Zosia. Later she was moved from Hucisko to Ranizow, and it was there that the area was liberated by the Russian Army in the summer of 1944.