Partisan nurse Dora Oltulski was born in the village of Zgorany near Luboml, Poland. Dora was the youngest in her family and had been attending school in Luboml when the Germans invaded her hometown and established a ghetto.

Dora lived in the Luboml Ghetto for a year, working in a canning factory outside the ghetto. It was her job in the factory that saved her life. Hearing rumors that the Germans were planning to liquidate the ghetto, she stayed overnight at the factory instead of returning and was spared the fate of her neighbors.

Dora and her family hid with a Gentile farmer for a year before they eventually joined her sister and brother-in-law in a partisan unit. Dora worked as a nurse in the makeshift hospital, cleaning and dressing wounds along with numbing her patients' pain with homemade vodka.

In the forest, some young women paired themselves off with partisan captains for protection and privileges. Dora remembered how one of her girlfriends got to ride a horse instead of walking and was spared from doing any manual labor after becoming the mistress of the camp commandant. But Dora was fiercely independent. She resisted the advances of any man who approached her in the camp.

As the war continued, the front lines drew closer to the forests around Luboml. Driven forward by the threat of desperate Germans in retreat, the unit decided their only hope was to cross the front and meet the advancing Soviet Army. Dora's mother and one of her sisters were killed in this dangerous crossing.

After being liberated by the Soviets, Dora and her remaining family returned to Luboml. Following the end of the war, Dora lived in a Displaced Persons (DP) camp in Germany. There she met a family friend who had known her since she was a child. In less than a year the couple was married. A year later, Dora gave birth to her first son in the DP camp. The family immigrated to America in 1949 and settled in New Jersey, where they eventually raised two children. Dora passed away in October 2018.