Aniela Zofia Steinsbergowa, (born on 27 June 1896 in

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; died on 22 December 1988 in

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) was a Polish lawyerRobert Jarocki, ''Aniela Steinsberg'', in: ''

Polski Słownik Biograficzny ''Polski Słownik Biograficzny'' (''PSB''; Polish Biographical Dictionary) is a Polish-language biographical dictionary, comprising an alphabetically arranged compilation of authoritative biographies of some 25,000 notable Poles and of foreigner ...

'', tom XLIII, 2004–200
online
/ref> known for her work in defending politically well-known cases. In 1931, she was entered on the list of lawyers, which made her one of the first female lawyers in

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. In 1934 she joined the

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. During WWII she was active in the

Żegota Żegota (, full codename: the "Konrad Żegota Committee"Yad Vashem Shoa Resource CenterZegota/ref>) was the Polish Council to Aid Jews with the Government Delegation for Poland ( pl, Rada Pomocy Żydom przy Delegaturze Rządu RP na Kraj), an un ...

. After the war she became a co-founder of the Workers' Defense Committee and the Social Self-Defense Committee "KOR".Kryptonim „Gracze”. Służba Bezpieczeństwa wobec Komitetu Obrony robotników i Komitetu Samoobrony społecznej „Kor” 1976–1981, wybór, wstęp i opracowanie Łukasz Kamiński i Grzegorz Waligóra, Warszawa 2010, s. 53.

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