MEMOIRS OF A VARSOVIENNE (Wspomnienia warszawianki)

Maria Asterblum was born in Warsaw in 1897, used the name Proner after getting married, during World War II was in hiding, using the name Pogonowska, which she continued to use after the war. She died in Israel 14 July, 2009. In her memoirs written in Israel in the years 1995-2000 she describes her childhood and youth. She was descended from an assimilated bourgeois family that had weak ties to Jewish tradition. She was one of the first female students at the physics faculty of Warsaw University, revived in 1917. In the supplement, the authoress' daughter mentions her relatives which fell victims to the Holocaust.