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Muriel Chochois

Muriel Chochois, a former senior civil servant, has worked on ethics, anti-discrimination, and gender equality policies. She has been working on the Jewish memory of Vilna (Lithuania) for twenty years and is the author of two books, one on Asia Turgel (2018) and the other on Dr. Roza Shabad-Gawronska (2023). She continues her research on women in Vilna's Jewish society and on spiritual resistance in the ghetto.√

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Roza Shabad-Gawronska

A pediatrician trained in Germany and Russia, specializing in the care of infants and mothers, Roza Shabad-Gawronska was president of the OZE/TOZ (Jewish Health Care Society) in Vilna on the eve of World War II. In the Vilna ghetto, she established all the medical and medico-social institutions for young children, including the orphanage and day care center. She was assassinated with the children of the orphanage in September 1943.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Muriel Chochois." (Viewed on June 15, 2026) <https://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/chochois-muriel>.