Teresa Prekerowa

Teresa Prekerowa, also Teresa Preker (née Dobrska; 30 December 1921 in Zapusta – 19 May 1998 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian and author of Konspiracyjna Rada Pomocy Żydom w Warszawie 1942-1945 (Żegota in Warsaw 1942-1945) published in 1982 during the communist military crackdown in the Polish People's Republic.

Early life and education Prekerowa was born in Zapusta, into a family of local landowners, and raised in rural settings. During World War II, they resided in German-occupied Warsaw. During the war, she married and later, she moved to ear Warsaw. Both in Warsaw and in Skolimów she and her family have helped several Jews, providing them with shelter and other aid. Prekerowa wrote that during World War II she had run into a little girl on the street from the Warsaw Ghetto and brought her to a Catholic convent, nonetheless, she never told anybody about it including her own parents.

Prekerowa wrote about the rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust. She estimated that between 160,000 and 360,000 Poles assisted in hiding Jews, amounting to between 1% and 2.5% of the Polish population. She categorized them as "those who could offer help" in saving Jews directly.

Following the collapse of the Soviet empire, in 1992 she published Zarys dziejów Żydów w Polsce w latach 1939-1945, and in 1995 received the award from the Polish PEN Club. She died in Warsaw. nevertheless, her contribution to general knowledge about the Polish-Jewish relations in World War II from the Polish 'non-Jewish' perspective is considered substantial.