Sara Ala Gołębianka: Social Worker, Contributor to <i>Ewa</i> , Warsaw Ghetto Nurse

This chapter outlines the early career of Sara Ala Gołębianka, who became the principal nurse in the Warsaw ghetto and saved hundreds of lives. She started her career publishing articles in the Polish Jewish press on the role of female students in academic life and the need to educate Jewish social workers. She graduated from the Jewish hospital in Czyste and the Free Polish University. Working as a social nurse in the Warsaw magistrate’s office, she was also active in the Jewish Women’s Union. Gołębianka strove to create a national consciousness among Jewish women, fought for their rights, and defended their national, economic, and professional interests. She ran a newborn baby care course for the Jewish Women’s Union before the war and supported the training of professional Jewish maidservants.