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In 1941, when Miriam was eight, her parents suspected the extermination of the Jews and put her in the custody of Cesia, a family friend. While on a train from Ozaro (a town south of Warsaw), they met a catholic pole named Maryla Dudek, who assumed custody of Miriam.

For the remainder of the war, Miriam was moved between several different villages in Poland, leaving each one when she was suspected to be Jewish. During this time, she stayed with a number of different families, with the story that her mother was working and unable to care for her. In these homes, she was required to work, in the house or in the fields, and was unable to attend school in all but one. After liberation, Miriam lived in Lwow with Maryla, at which point her last name was changed to Dudek, and her birth date from June 1933 to September 1937. This made it easier for Miriam to pass as Maryla’s daughter.

After the war, Miriam lived with Maryla and her husband Rysiu, working in Rysiu’s bakery and selling his products. She was also able to attend school once again. However, she fled at the age of 15 after months of being mistreated physically and emotionally, and began living in an orphanage in Szczecin. Miriam enrolled in school once again, and graduated high school in 1951.

In 1963, she married Romek Orlowski and they had their first child, Daniel, in 1964. Miriam and her husband applied for emigration and, in 1969, were able to move to the United States, where they had their second Child, David. ( https://www.holocaustcenter.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=766 )