Józefa Kantor (6 March 1896,
Tarnów
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- 25 September 1990) was a Polish teacher,
Scoutmaster
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(
harcmistrzyni) founder of the
Girl Scouts group "
Mury".
Kantor was arrested on 9 November 1940 by the
Gestapo
The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organi ...
and sent to the
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Ravensbrück () was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The camp memorial's estimated figure o ...
(inmate number 7261), where she established the secret Girl Scout group "Mury" in November 1941.
1896 births
1990 deaths
Polish schoolteachers
Women in World War II
Polish resistance members of World War II
Polish Scouts and Guides
Women in European warfare
Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors
Polish female soldiers
20th-century Polish women
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