“Kajtek,” age 9 – Warsaw Uprising, 1944 Child courier of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa).
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.
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 Stefania Brill – Warsaw, 1989 Standing at the Mila 18 memorial, site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising command bunker.
Stefania Brill with her firstborn – Petach Tikvah, Israel, 1958 Postwar years in Israel before emigrating to the United States.
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 Skó�kowska – St. Mary’s Convent School, Lowestoft, England, c. 1950 Performing in a school play while studying on scholarship after the war.
Schlomo Szurek – Buchenwald, 1945 Prisoner registration card from Buchenwald concentration camp, noting his address as Mila 18, Warsaw.
Jakub (Yakov) Szurek – Poland, 1945 Holocaust survivor registration card listing Mila 18, Warsaw as the family home and birthplace of his sister Edna (“Kajtek”).
“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.”
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.
