When she was seven years old, her parents placed her under the care of a certain Polish couple. Their surname is Szela … The Szelas unselfishly procured a birth certificate for her at a Catholic parsonage and took her from Dunajów, Tarnopol Voivodship, to Lvov [Lwów] where she stayed with them in hiding about a year. When the Germans searched the houses for Jews, Mr. Władysław Szela sent her with his wife to Czudziec [Czudec], Rzeszów Voivodship, to his family and there she stayed until the liberation. Another memoir mentions the assistance provided by an unidentified priest from the town of Skała Podolska, in Tarnopol voivodship. (Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, Strange and Unexpected Love: A Teenage Girl’s Holocaust Memoirs [Hoboken New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, 1993], p.113.)
