Matylda Getter

Matylda Getter
Portrait from before the Holocaust
Born	Matylda Getter 25 February 1870
Died	8 August 1968 (aged 98)
Nationality	Polish
Known for	Polish Righteous among the Nations

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Matylda Getter (25 February 1870 – 8 August 1968) was a Polish Catholic nun, mother provincial of CSFFM (Congregatio Sororum Franciscalium Familiae Mariae, Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary) in Warsaw and social worker in pre-war Poland. In German-occupied Warsaw during World War II she cooperated with Irena Sendler and the Żegota resistance organization in saving the lives of hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto.^[1] She was recognized as one of Polish Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem^[2] for her rescue activities.