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DANUTA POGORSKI Obituary

DANUTA POGORSKI Danuta Pogorski passed away peacefully at Santa Fe Care Center on January 6, 2014. Born in Warsaw, Poland her education was interrupted by the start of World War II. As a teenager and following the early death of her father, Danuta and her mother, Maria Jablonowska, became members of the Polish resistance movement (Armia Karjowa or AK) and fought in the heroic and tragic 63-day Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in an effort to liberate the beautiful city of Warsaw from Nazi occupation. Following their capture both Danuta and her mother were made to live and work in a German forced labor camp until being rescued by Allied troops in 1946. After the war Danuta emigrated to England and from there came to the United States, became a US citizen, living first in Cleveland, OH and then in Santa Fe, NM since 1967 where she retired from the College of Santa Fe. Danuta's remains will be interred with her mother at Our Lady of Czestochowa Catholic Cemetery in Doylestown, PA where they are honored as "veteran" resistance fighters of WWII. Memorial contributions can be made to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa at 654 Ferry Road Doylestown, PA 18901. Arrangements by Rivera Family Funeral Home (505) 753-2288. To share a memory, please visit our website at www.riverafuneralhome.com Rivera Family Funerals and Cremations 305 Calle Salazar Espanola, NM 87532 505-753-2288

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Published by Santa Fe New Mexican from Jan. 12 to Jan. 14, 2014.

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Ellen Greegor

January 6, 2022

I remember Danuta putting on Femme,. the most popular perfume post WW2 at my mother's dressing table. She asked me if I liked it, and when I said yes, she said with her beautiful accent, " It's strawberry." I have a bottle on my dressing table to this day.

Jerri Oines (Shablow)

January 22, 2014

I will miss you and your sweet cat, MaKajtek, Danuta. May God bless you.

Sarah Davanzo

January 18, 2014

After WWII, my parents sponsored Danuta and her family when they came to the United States. My siblings and I were lucky enough to learn about the beauty and dignity of the Polish culture through knowing Danuta. May she find peace...

Ellen Greegor

January 17, 2014

Sending truest love and eternal gratitude to the fairest of them all; the fine, the brave, and the always beautiful Danuta.

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