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Jaroslawa Lewicka, a Polish-born woman who risked her life as a young child to save Jews during the Holocaust passed away in Haifa on Tuesday night, two months before her 92nd birthday. Beginning at just six years old, she helped her mother and grandfather rescue Jews, carrying food and medicine and serving as their messenger, and the family hid two Jews in their home in 1943. Yad Vashem honored the three in 1989. Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav called her a symbol of courage, humanity and kindness.