Yerakhmiel Risio Blass was the Polish-Jewish son of Gdaliyahu and Khana (née Charna) Blass. He was possibly born in Wlocławek in 1936. He had a sister, Tami (1939).

Yerakhmiel Risio Blass was the Polish-Jewish son of Gdaliyahu and Khana (née Charna) Blass. He was possibly born in Wlocławek in 1936. He had a sister, Tami (1939).

His parents were Polish Jews. In December 1939, both the immediate and extended family, which included cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents, were put on a train from Wloclawek to Zamosc. Khana was pregnant with Tami and began to have contractions. She asked to get off the train together with her husband. When an SS officer saw her husband climb down after her, he was forced to go back on the train. When Khana told the officer that he was her husband, the SS man threw Risio out of the train. It's unknown where exactly Tami was born. 

The remaining family on the train were sent onwards to Zamosc ghetto where they remained together until Tami's grandparents were deported to the extermination camps.

In 1940, a cousin escaped Zamosc and returned to Warsaw. There she found Khana, Tami and Rysio. She told Khana that everyone was still together in the ghetto and Khana left with the children to join her family. She began to work in the ghetto kitchen where she met a Christian woman, Maria Pavelez. Maria worked in the ghetto but returned home every night.

 Khana asked Maria to take Tami as she had blue eyes and blonde hair and could easily pass as an Aryan. Soon after Tami went into Maria's care, some neighbors informed the SS of an unknown child in her residence. The SS interrogated Maria who claimed the child was her niece. She wrote a note saying the child had been baptized, and her name was Wanda Maria and then pinned it to her dress. She pushed her into the yard of a convent where she was taken in and remained there until the end of the war. After the war the monastery asked the local population to take in orphans.

A religious family from Izbica took her in and she lived with them until 1948. Then the Coordinatzia Commitee came to claim her, told her she was Jewish and she had to go with them

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