Elżbieta Zawacka
Elżbieta Zawacka ( born March 19, 1909 in Thorn, † January 10, 2009 ibid ) was a Polish underground fighter mathematician, educator, professor and activist. For their achievements in resistance, she was promoted to brigadier general in 2006.
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Life
Early years
Elżbieta Zawacka grew up bilingual in the then Prussian Thorn. In 1918, after the regained independence of Poland, she was Polish nationals. She studied mathematics at the University of Poznan, and then worked as a secondary school teacher. At the same time, she worked as an instructor in the female backup troops Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet.
Resistance
During the German occupation of Poland Zawacka was in the high command of the Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa ), Department of foreign contacts operate. As a courier and emissary of the Supreme Commander of AK, she traveled several times to the Polish government in exile in London. She was the only parachutist of the Armia Krajowa. In one of her many identities Zo she became a legend already during the war. Next, she worked as an instructor of Polish special forces Cichociemni in the UK, where they were prepared for their use in the occupied homeland, and organized trips other couriers between Poland and Britain ( and others by Jan Nowak - Jezioranski ). As a member of the resistance, it participated in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 and went to his crackdown to Krakow, where she continued her work in the underground.
After 1945
In the communist Polish People's Republic in 1951, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for high treason and espionage, but was released in 1955 after an amnesty.
After discharge, she was scientifically active at the University of Gdansk and the University Toruń, where in 1972 Professor of Education was after her habilitation. Under pressure from the authorities, she was retired in early 1978 and thus expelled from the university. Thereafter she devoted herself to promoting the memory of women in the resistance and was co-founder in 1990 of the Archives and Museum of the Home Army in Pomerania, based in Thorn. High Adored she died 100 years old in her hometown.
Awards
Elżbieta Zawacka was repeatedly honored with the highest Polish decorations, including:
- Order of Polonia Restituta - Officer's Cross (1990 )
- Order of Polonia Restituta - Commander with Star (1993 )
- Order of the White Eagle ( 1995)