# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-kotarba
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:21:40.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-kotarba"
name: "Maria Kotarba"
slug: "maria-kotarba"
description: "Maria Kotarba was a courier in the Polish resistance movement, smuggling clandestine messages and supplies among the local partisan groups. She was arrested, tortured and interrogated by the Gestapo as a political prisoner before being imprisoned in Tarnów and then deported to Auschwitz on 6 January 1943. Maria Kotarba was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on 18 September 2005 for risking her life to save the lives of Jewish prisoners in two Nazi concentration camps."
tagline: "Polish resistance fighter (1907–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria-Kotarba-Auschwitz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1907-09-04"
deathDate: "1956-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.419692000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "瑪麗亞·科塔芭"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماريا كوتاربا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kotarba"
    title: "Maria Kotarba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1_%CE%9A%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B1"
    title: "Μάρια Κοτάρμπα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kotarba"
    title: "Maria Kotarba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kotarba"
    title: "Maria Kotarba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kotarba"
    title: "Maria Kotarba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%94"
    title: "מריה קוטרבה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kotarba"
    title: "Maria Kotarba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kotarba"
    title: "Maria Kotarba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kotarba"
    title: "Maria Kotarba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726164"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump