Krystyna Budnicka
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Krystyna Budnicka / Hena Kuczer (F / Poland, 1932), Holocaust survivor.
- KEYWORDS : <Warsaw Ghetto> <Hidden Chidren>
- MEMOIRS : The Last Eyewitnesses (1998), 17-21
Biography
Hena Kuczer was born on May 8, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland. During the war, Krystyna Budnicka, her five siblings and their parents hid from the Germans in a network of sewers under a Warsaw ghetto street where her father had built a bunker. More than a year later, only she and one of her brothers survived. A retired teacher for children with learning disabilities, Budnicka speaks to children about the Holocaust in her free time.