Age 24. 66 Chiswick Road, Brighton (Boston), MA. Born on 11/03/1918, in Boston. Died of burns (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Known as "Polly." Expecting wife of victim Max Wyner, age 26, also dead. Couple was reported by the 12/01/1942 Boston Post to be in a party of eight including her engaged brother-in-law Sica "Sam" Wyner, age 28, and the latter's fiancée, Miss Ruth Karmelin, age 22, both dead, bidding farewell to Lieut. Bernard N. "Bucky" Levin, U.S. Army, age 30 (Born 1/13/1912. Died 6/14/1982, age 70. Last residence Rochester, NY), of Brookline, MA, six perished. Lieut. Levin related at the spring 1943 Grove manslaughter trials that the group consisted of only five, with four dead (none named). Her remains were identified at Northern Mortuary through a gold wrist watch crafted by her father, a jewelry manufacturer. "...Her body was so charred that immediate identification was impossible" (The Boston Post, 12/01/1942). Couple married on 8/22/1941. The unborn child would have been a first for the pair. One of five known expecting female fire victims (also Mrs. Gladys Charles, age 29, Mrs. Louise Hubert, age 30, Mrs. Margaret Lewis, age 24, and Mrs. Marion Steensen, age 23, all patrons), two others survived (club singer Mrs. Melisa Campos, age 24, and patron Mrs. Helen Cavanagh, age 23), all married. With her husband was one of 56 married couples present in which both spouses lost their lives (includes the Gatturnas of Roslindale, MA; wife Grace died at the scene, husband Francis committed post-fire suicide five weeks later on 1/09/1943). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Jacob and Lena (Silverblatt) Ratzkoff. Burial with her husband and victim brother-in-law in the Wyner family lot at Fuller Street (Temple Beth Shalom) Cemetery, Everett, MA. With the Wyner brothers were three of 18 fire victims interred at the above collective Jewish cemeteries, the fourth-greatest final resting grounds for all Grove casualties, and most at any single site outside Boston proper. Middle name Miriam.

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