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==Relationships== In 1948, Saunders fell in love with a patient, Ela Majer "David" Tasma, a Polish-Jewish refugee who, having escaped from the [[Warsaw Ghetto]], worked as a waiter; he was dying of [[cancer]]. He bequeathed her Β£500 ({{Inflation|UK|500|1948|r=-3|fmt=eq|cursign=Β£}})<ref name="probate">''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858β1995''</ref> to be "a window in your home".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093qyn |title=BBC Radio 4 β Desert Island Discs, Dame Cicely Saunders |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |access-date=2018-12-19}}</ref> This donation, which helped germinate the idea that would become St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham, London, is memorialized with a plain sheet of glass at the hospice's entrance. While training for [[social work]], she holidayed with some Christians and was converted to Christianity.<ref name=":1" /> In the late 1940s, Saunders began working part-time at [[St Luke's Home for the Dying Poor]] in [[Bayswater]], and it was partly this which, in 1951, led her to begin studying to become a physician.
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