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Pensioner died in house fall
AN elderly Polish émigré who died when she fell down stairs at her Finsbury Park home has been hailed as a “strong woman of iron will”.
Barbara Olszewska was forcibly removed from her homeland in 1940 during the Second World War.
As a 16-year-old schoolgirl she was made to build railways in Kazakhstan and then drafted into a rag-tag Polish army regiment that marched on foot from Kazakhstan to Palestine.
Typhoid fever broke out among the troops and she had to administer life-saving injections at the age of 17. She met her future husband, a fellow soldier in the army, around that time.
Mrs Olszewska, 86, died at her home in Woodfall Road shortly before Christmas last year.
She was discovered lying face down on the ground floor by her granddaughter Sofia, who occupied a room in the top of the house.
Speaking after the inquest, her daughter Ewa said: “She was an extremely strong woman. She wasn’t very outgoing but she was the most determined woman.”
Her mother came to England in 1947 and worked as a dental nurse at a practice in Holloway Road.
Verdict: accidental death. |
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