Vanda Skuratovich
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Vanda Skuratovič (Belarusian: Ванда Скуратовіч, 1925, Raubichy – 12 January 2010, Minsk) was a Belarusian Roman Catholic activist.
During the Second World War she served as a partisan in Piotar Mašeraŭ's unit.[citation needed] She reportedly rescued a Jewish family from being deported to a concentration camp.[1]
After the war, Skuratovič was a staunch activist, organizing religious ceremonies, largely forbidden by Soviet authorities at that time, at her home. She actively participated in the campaign by Belarusian Roman Catholics demanding return of the Kalvaryja Church in Minsk, which was returned to the Catholic Church in 1980.
Vanda Skuratovič died in Minsk on 12 January 2010, aged 84.
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- Vanda Skuratovich – her activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website
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- 1925 births
- 2010 deaths
- Belarusian anti-communists
- Belarusian Roman Catholics
- Belarusian partisans
- People from Minsk
- Catholic Righteous Among the Nations
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- Roman Catholic biographical stubs