“Kajtek,” age 9 – Warsaw Uprising, 1944 Child courier of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa).
Armia Krajowa Identification Card – Warsaw, 1944 Certifying that “Kajtek” (Stefania Skó�kowska) served as a soldier of the Polish Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising.
“Kajtek,” age 12 – Vatican City, 1946 Wearing the papal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice cross awarded by Pope Pius XII for her service and suffering as one of the “Oberlangen girls.”
Jakub (Yakov) Szurek – Poland, 1945 Holocaust survivor registration card listing Mila 18, Warsaw as the family home and birthplace of his sister Edna (“Kajtek”).
Schlomo Szurek – Buchenwald, 1945 Prisoner registration card from Buchenwald concentration camp, noting his address as Mila 18, Warsaw.
Stefania Skó�kowska – St. Mary’s Convent School, Lowestoft, England, c. 1950 Performing in a school play while studying on scholarship after the war.
Stefania Skó�kowska (Edna Szurek) and Harry (Zvi) Brill – Nahariya, Israel, January 30, 1953 Clockwise from bottom left: Stefania, Yakov, Miriam, David (Miriam’s husband), and Zvi on Stefania and (Zvi) Harry’s wedding day.
Stefania Brill with her firstborn – Petach Tikvah, Israel, 1958 Postwar years in Israel before emigrating to the United States.
Edna Stefania Brill – Warsaw, 1989 Standing at the Mila 18 memorial, site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising command bunker.
Edna Stefania Brill – 50th Wedding Gala, United States, 2003 Celebrating the Hora, lifted in joy by her son Samuel, fifty years after surviving the war and rebuilding her life.
Edna’s Legacy – From Mila 18 to America Edna Stefania Brill – United States, c. 2000s Holocaust survivor, WWII child hero, and resistance fighter, pictured with her husband Harry and their children and grandchildren — the living legacy of courage and survival.
