Maria Gurowska

Maria Gurowska (née Zand; 1 October 1915 - 4 January 1998) was a Polish judge in the People's Republic of Poland.

Personal life She was born in a Jewish family to Moryc and Frajda (Eisenman) Zand. Her father was an accountant and a trade agent; he died in 1941.

From 1950-1954 she was a member of the secret section inside Regional Court in Warsaw, responsible for judging in political trials on requests from the Ministry of Public Security of Poland, unleashing terror against the political opposition. Gurowska was a judge in the trial against general August Emil Fieldorf, whom she sentenced to death.

On the wave of De-Stalinization she was released in 1956 from the Department of Justice, and finally in 1970 from the position of judge.