Cecylia Roszak

Sister Cecylia Roszak (born Maria Roszak; 25 March 1908 – 16 November 2018) was a Polish nun, Dominican sister, Righteous Among the Nations, and supercentenarian.

Biography Sister Cecylia was born on 25 March 1908 as Maria Roszak in the town of Kiełczewo, German Empire, now in Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

During the World War II occupation in Vilnius, with other nuns, she helped many refugees. The nuns also sheltered fifteen Jewish refugees from the Vilna Ghetto from the youth scouting group Hashomer Hatzair including Abba Kovner, Izrael Chaim Wilner, Haika Grossman, Elye Boraks, Chuma Godot, and Izrael Nagel. The nuns' monastery became a base of the local Jewish resistance, where the Jewish resistance organization Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye was formed. In 1943, the Germans arrested the mother superior and closed the monastery, but the nuns, though deprived of their main base, continued their activities. In 1944, Sister Cecylia became a prioress. After the war, due to the borders' change and the loss of Vilnius by Poland, she returned to Kraków. called "the oldest living Cracovian" (inhabitant of the city of Kraków).

Maria Roszak died in Kraków on 16 November 2018.