Barney
30 Dec 2009
Barney
30 Dec 2009
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]
And not every Polish person hates Jewish people.
Historical events are far more complicated than a simple retelling of facts no matter how they are presented, what makes it interesting is the back story.
Lumping people together is never a good idea, I recall the anarchists expelled during the partition era lots ended up in London and continued their activities, they were Poles of all flavours. I cant speak for British people but I know they didnt lump Poles together as anarchists. Those Poles were trying to free their country (rightly or wrongly)
lets say NOT every jew hates poles in fact common people like everywhere don't care.
And not every Polish person hates Jewish people.
Historical events are far more complicated than a simple retelling of facts no matter how they are presented, what makes it interesting is the back story.
Lumping people together is never a good idea, I recall the anarchists expelled during the partition era lots ended up in London and continued their activities, they were Poles of all flavours. I cant speak for British people but I know they didnt lump Poles together as anarchists. Those Poles were trying to free their country (rightly or wrongly)
Barney
30 Dec 2009
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]
Ok, I asked why you thought Jewish people turned against Poles.
I didn't believe Iraq had Nuclear weapons.
Now would you answer my question.
Ok, I asked why you thought Jewish people turned against Poles.
I didn't believe Iraq had Nuclear weapons.
Now would you answer my question.
Barney
30 Dec 2009
Barney
30 Dec 2009
Barney
29 Dec 2009
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]
Two very bad things (at least) happened only an idiot would say that all Polish are anti-semitic jew haters.
The Nazi holocaust happened to a large extent in Poland that is not the fault of Poland and I can understand why Polish people are defensive about it.
The article I posted was trying to get away from the moronic view of Poles as Jew hating knuckle draggers.
I don't believe that It was completelly made up but the "official" version is so illogicial, It is offending for human intellect that It was commonly accepted to be true.
Kielce - we now when and who was killed but still It is wierd, expecially that local authorities were involved and later the commie government was blaming anti-Soviet circles...
Two very bad things (at least) happened only an idiot would say that all Polish are anti-semitic jew haters.
The Nazi holocaust happened to a large extent in Poland that is not the fault of Poland and I can understand why Polish people are defensive about it.
The article I posted was trying to get away from the moronic view of Poles as Jew hating knuckle draggers.
Barney
29 Dec 2009
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]
Its always safe to use the "what about" argument, ignoring anything you may be uncomfortable with.
It would also have helped a bit If the chosen hadn't massively collaborated with NKVD.
Its always safe to use the "what about" argument, ignoring anything you may be uncomfortable with.
Barney
29 Dec 2009
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]
Read the article.
The author sets out and defeats the commonly held view that Polish people are anti-Semitic by default, he also attempts to explain what many see as a defensive attitude of Polish people with particular reference to Jews.
I chose the quote because the thread asks if there is blood on Polish hands and it agreed with the poster above who quoted "Captain Obvious".
what do you mean by that ?
Read the article.
The author sets out and defeats the commonly held view that Polish people are anti-Semitic by default, he also attempts to explain what many see as a defensive attitude of Polish people with particular reference to Jews.
I chose the quote because the thread asks if there is blood on Polish hands and it agreed with the poster above who quoted "Captain Obvious".
Barney
29 Dec 2009
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]
I thought this article was excellent.
For here is a deeper truth: this is what human beings are capable of when they find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. (And to be a small town in eastern Poland occupied first by the Soviets, then by the Nazis, then by a Soviet-imposed Polish communist regime, is almost a definition of wrong place, wrong time.) Anyone born in a luckier place and time must say: there, but for the grace of geography, go I.
guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/23/poland-catholicism-nazis-difficult-past
I thought this article was excellent.
For here is a deeper truth: this is what human beings are capable of when they find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. (And to be a small town in eastern Poland occupied first by the Soviets, then by the Nazis, then by a Soviet-imposed Polish communist regime, is almost a definition of wrong place, wrong time.) Anyone born in a luckier place and time must say: there, but for the grace of geography, go I.
guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/23/poland-catholicism-nazis-difficult-past
Barney
8 Dec 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
Marzena Schejbal
Pictured above on the left, the woman on the right is Anna Przylipiak below is a picture of them with Wanda Gutowska another AK soldier, they were going to the 60th anniversary reunion.
telegraph.co.uk/culture/3621391/The-Warsaw-women-who-took-on-Hitler.html - This is a great wee article about them
These couriers were very brave, pictured is one working under fire.
Marzena Schejbal
Pictured above on the left, the woman on the right is Anna Przylipiak below is a picture of them with Wanda Gutowska another AK soldier, they were going to the 60th anniversary reunion.
telegraph.co.uk/culture/3621391/The-Warsaw-women-who-took-on-Hitler.html - This is a great wee article about them
Marzenna joined 3 Company "Wkra", Pine Group, and soon acted as messenger, nurse, stretcher-bearer, forager for medical supplies and jack-of-all-trades. On August 6, 1944, sporting a white-and-red AK armband - ubiquitous symbol of the Rising.
These couriers were very brave, pictured is one working under fire.
Three ladies
POW card and original armband
Very young courier
Courier under fire
Barney
6 Dec 2009
Life / Polish plantlife and similar flora where you live. [81]
The orange/rust looks like Trentepohlia Algae.
The Green looks like Pleurococcus.
You are right, aspect determines the type of algae growing. The reddish could also be one of a number of types of lichen
Lichen do provide an extremely good indicator of air quality. It's possible to determine almost the exact sulphur dioxide content of the air by noting the type of lichen growing.
The orange/rust looks like Trentepohlia Algae.
The Green looks like Pleurococcus.
You are right, aspect determines the type of algae growing. The reddish could also be one of a number of types of lichen
Lichen do provide an extremely good indicator of air quality. It's possible to determine almost the exact sulphur dioxide content of the air by noting the type of lichen growing.
Barney
1 Dec 2009
Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]
Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zwierzętami w Polsce (TOZ)
toz.pl
TOZ was founded in Warsaw in November 1864, the second such organization in Europe, the first being the British RSPCA. The Society also worked in the Austrian partition.
In 1939 there were 45,000 members of the Society. During World War II TOZ activists carried the animals to safety in the bombed cities and cared for the horses used by the military. After the war, TOZ survived until its dissolution in 1951, (revived in 1957).
Today they are active in almost every city and town in Poland.
TOZ is also affiliated to the euro group for animals along with
The Treaty of Rome did not include a reference to animal welfare. A revision resulted in the Treaty of Amsterdam which, thanks to Eurogroup campaigning, included a protocol on animal welfare. The Treaty of Amsterdam and the protocol became effective on 1 May 1999.
The Protocol on Animal Welfare
The animal welfare protocol included in the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam is significant. For the first time in European law, animals are referred to as sentient beings - able to feel pain and suffering, and experience well-being.
Polish Animal Protection Act - animallaw.info/nonus/statutes/stpoapa1997.htm
Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zwierzętami w Polsce (TOZ)
toz.pl
TOZ was founded in Warsaw in November 1864, the second such organization in Europe, the first being the British RSPCA. The Society also worked in the Austrian partition.
In 1939 there were 45,000 members of the Society. During World War II TOZ activists carried the animals to safety in the bombed cities and cared for the horses used by the military. After the war, TOZ survived until its dissolution in 1951, (revived in 1957).
Today they are active in almost every city and town in Poland.
TOZ is also affiliated to the euro group for animals along with
The Treaty of Rome did not include a reference to animal welfare. A revision resulted in the Treaty of Amsterdam which, thanks to Eurogroup campaigning, included a protocol on animal welfare. The Treaty of Amsterdam and the protocol became effective on 1 May 1999.
The Protocol on Animal Welfare
The animal welfare protocol included in the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam is significant. For the first time in European law, animals are referred to as sentient beings - able to feel pain and suffering, and experience well-being.
Polish Animal Protection Act - animallaw.info/nonus/statutes/stpoapa1997.htm
Barney
28 Nov 2009
UK, Ireland / (Polish man murdered in Belfast) RIP Piotr Michna [53]
I cant begin to think what his family are feeling, my heart goes out to them. A tear came to my eye as I read the tributes to this man.
We said this at my Father's Funeral
May the road rise up to meet you,
May the wind be ever at your back
May the sun shine warm upon your face
And the rain fall softly on your fields
And until we meet again, May God hold
you in the hollow of his hand.
youtu.be/1se8_-fcxZs
this guy was very popular
I cant begin to think what his family are feeling, my heart goes out to them. A tear came to my eye as I read the tributes to this man.
We said this at my Father's Funeral
May the road rise up to meet you,
May the wind be ever at your back
May the sun shine warm upon your face
And the rain fall softly on your fields
And until we meet again, May God hold
you in the hollow of his hand.
youtu.be/1se8_-fcxZs
Barney
28 Nov 2009
History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]
I know this wasnt addressed to me but WTH.
There are two approaches either ignore them or confront them head on.
Confronting them head on has a problem, it often lets them set the agenda, you are starting on the back foot, why argue on someone else’s terms.
By ignoring them they envelop themselves and others in a self spun web of nonsense that just becomes more ludicrous with time. The problem with this approach is because they haven’t been questioned, according to generally accepted norms, they then believe their [twisted] views have been endorsed.
If you go at them with a big bull neck, on your oun agenda, they always cry that it’s you depriving them of their rights [to be morons].
There are certain tenets of humanity that have been hard won and views that should not be tolerated or ignored.
I don’t believe it’s a lack of education or life experience that led them to those views, many racists are educated people. Under educated people tend not to be racist but some are, a point always ignored by the classic left.
Racism, anti-Semitism etc is something that ignores the traditional left/right divide and paradoxically is independent of colour, gender, social status and religion.
I don’t know where it comes from my guess is that it is a knee-jerk reaction to difference.
Seanus, question for you as humanist: tolerance is one of the greatest goods mankind knows nowadays; how would you see the way tolerant ppl should act towards intolerant ppl?
I know this wasnt addressed to me but WTH.
There are two approaches either ignore them or confront them head on.
Confronting them head on has a problem, it often lets them set the agenda, you are starting on the back foot, why argue on someone else’s terms.
By ignoring them they envelop themselves and others in a self spun web of nonsense that just becomes more ludicrous with time. The problem with this approach is because they haven’t been questioned, according to generally accepted norms, they then believe their [twisted] views have been endorsed.
If you go at them with a big bull neck, on your oun agenda, they always cry that it’s you depriving them of their rights [to be morons].
There are certain tenets of humanity that have been hard won and views that should not be tolerated or ignored.
I don’t believe it’s a lack of education or life experience that led them to those views, many racists are educated people. Under educated people tend not to be racist but some are, a point always ignored by the classic left.
Racism, anti-Semitism etc is something that ignores the traditional left/right divide and paradoxically is independent of colour, gender, social status and religion.
I don’t know where it comes from my guess is that it is a knee-jerk reaction to difference.
Barney
25 Nov 2009
UK, Ireland / (Polish man murdered in Belfast) RIP Piotr Michna [53]
Not much more information on this tragic case.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/bid-to-trace-family-of-murdered-polish-man-14572532.html
Not much more information on this tragic case.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/bid-to-trace-family-of-murdered-polish-man-14572532.html
Barney
17 Nov 2009
History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]
MareGaea
Isn’t it sad that you have to type that.
This forum is populated by smart witty people (I'll stick to boring).
It’s only a small amount of posters who express stupid views especially towards Jews but they are loud.
Its been said before, many type cr@p because of the anonymity the Internet gives.
I like to apply the three pint rule:
If you say something in a bar after three pints that you wouldnt normally say out loud then you should look at yourself or change your friends.
MareGaea
Isn’t it sad that you have to type that.
This forum is populated by smart witty people (I'll stick to boring).
It’s only a small amount of posters who express stupid views especially towards Jews but they are loud.
Its been said before, many type cr@p because of the anonymity the Internet gives.
I like to apply the three pint rule:
If you say something in a bar after three pints that you wouldnt normally say out loud then you should look at yourself or change your friends.
Barney
17 Nov 2009
Life / How Polish are you? [74]
Grzegorz_
I would have scored less than 9% in the first quiz if I mentioned that I was pink:)
Grzegorz_
I would have scored less than 9% in the first quiz if I mentioned that I was pink:)
Barney
17 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
britishpathe.com/video/polish-women-troops - Film of Polish women soldiers
Location unknown (It looks like Britain to me plus the uniforms)
PS give it time to load, may be a bit stop/go depending on your connection.
britishpathe.com/video/polish-women-troops - Film of Polish women soldiers
Location unknown (It looks like Britain to me plus the uniforms)
PS give it time to load, may be a bit stop/go depending on your connection.
Barney
16 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
When the Warsaw Uprising ended the Germans granted over two thousand Polish women soldiers prisoner-of-war status. Women officers were sent to Oflag Molsdorf, whereas women of lower ranks were sent, among other places, to Stalag Oberlangen.
polishresistance-ak.org/12%20Article.htm
Oflag Molsdorf
Oflag IX C Molsdorf was created after the collapse of the Warsaw Rising. It was a small camp, capable of accommodating 400 people, and it was a branch of the Buchenwald concentration camp
The Polish OC was Major Wanda Gertz a.k.a. "Kazik" (Pictured above Post #22)
Conditions were harsh with temperatures dropping to minus 17 celsius The German Commander forbade the use of small cookers and prevented the supply of firewood.
"this camp looks surprisingly like a concentration camp, not like any Oflag that I have seen."Dr. H. Landolt of the Red Cross
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag_IX-C
sppw1944.org/powstanie/kobiety_jency_eng.html
There are some good images in the second link.
Stalag Oberlangen
Oberlangen accommodated 1.721 women from the Warsaw Rising. They were aged between 14 and 60. Many concealed their officer military ranks so as to be placed together with the women soldiers in the Stalags. Their task was to train the hundreds of young women who were not accustomed to military discipline to form a military group.
Captain Maria Irena Milska "Jaga", posing as a sergeant, was the camp's commander.
In October 0f 1944 Strafflager VI C Oberlangen was removed from the official list of the prisoner-of-war camps [by Germans] because its living conditions were beyond any acceptable standards. The International Red Cross did not realise that it was the place where the Polish women prisoners of war were transported.
Maria Irena Milska "Jaga" died in 1988 in Krakow
When the Warsaw Uprising ended the Germans granted over two thousand Polish women soldiers prisoner-of-war status. Women officers were sent to Oflag Molsdorf, whereas women of lower ranks were sent, among other places, to Stalag Oberlangen.
polishresistance-ak.org/12%20Article.htm
Oflag Molsdorf
Oflag IX C Molsdorf was created after the collapse of the Warsaw Rising. It was a small camp, capable of accommodating 400 people, and it was a branch of the Buchenwald concentration camp
The Polish OC was Major Wanda Gertz a.k.a. "Kazik" (Pictured above Post #22)
Conditions were harsh with temperatures dropping to minus 17 celsius The German Commander forbade the use of small cookers and prevented the supply of firewood.
"this camp looks surprisingly like a concentration camp, not like any Oflag that I have seen."Dr. H. Landolt of the Red Cross
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag_IX-C
sppw1944.org/powstanie/kobiety_jency_eng.html
There are some good images in the second link.
Stalag Oberlangen
Oberlangen accommodated 1.721 women from the Warsaw Rising. They were aged between 14 and 60. Many concealed their officer military ranks so as to be placed together with the women soldiers in the Stalags. Their task was to train the hundreds of young women who were not accustomed to military discipline to form a military group.
Captain Maria Irena Milska "Jaga", posing as a sergeant, was the camp's commander.
In October 0f 1944 Strafflager VI C Oberlangen was removed from the official list of the prisoner-of-war camps [by Germans] because its living conditions were beyond any acceptable standards. The International Red Cross did not realise that it was the place where the Polish women prisoners of war were transported.
Maria Irena Milska "Jaga" died in 1988 in Krakow
Maria Irena Milska
The emblem of the women society of Oberlangen
Barney
15 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
Sean
Those images are what I have been looking for (names,dates and places)
Its difficult to get stories, thats what I have been looking for. I dont know Polish so have to rely upon online translations as most sources are in polish, I will keep searching.
Thanks
Sean
Those images are what I have been looking for (names,dates and places)
Its difficult to get stories, thats what I have been looking for. I dont know Polish so have to rely upon online translations as most sources are in polish, I will keep searching.
Thanks
Barney
15 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
1jola
That woman in the third picture of post #4 is Zofia Domańska or "Zocha"
Zofia Domańska Died in September 2009
nekrologi.wyborcza.pl/0,11,,4498,Zofia-Doma%C5%84ska-nekrolog.html
1jola
That woman in the third picture of post #4 is Zofia Domańska or "Zocha"
Zofia Domańska Died in September 2009
nekrologi.wyborcza.pl/0,11,,4498,Zofia-Doma%C5%84ska-nekrolog.html
Barney
15 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
Not every Woman Soldier was decorated
Battalion "Czata 49." Had at least two women serving.
"Xenia" Louis Wyszomirska was a courrier
"Ewa"Anna Wyganowska (No Info)
Not all women soldiers fought with the AK and some were murdered out of hand. The third image is of two Jewish women/Girls on the point of execution during or just after the Ghetto rising
Not every Woman Soldier was decorated
Battalion "Czata 49." Had at least two women serving.
"Xenia" Louis Wyszomirska was a courrier
"Ewa"Anna Wyganowska (No Info)
Not all women soldiers fought with the AK and some were murdered out of hand. The third image is of two Jewish women/Girls on the point of execution during or just after the Ghetto rising
Anna Wyganowska
Louis Wyszomirska
Two_Women_about_to_b.jpg
Barney
15 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
She was awarded The Virtuti Militari, Order of the White Eagle and The Cross of Valor
freepress.pl/galerianaczasie.php?id=256&kat=1
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka an interesting anti-semite
Good luck with the Memoirs
Elżbieta Zawacka(19 March 1909 - 10 January 2009[/url]), known also by her war-time nom de guerre Zo, was a Polish university professor, scouting instructor, SOE agent and a freedom fighter during World War II.
She was awarded The Virtuti Militari, Order of the White Eagle and The Cross of Valor
freepress.pl/galerianaczasie.php?id=256&kat=1
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka an interesting anti-semite
I had the great pleasure of meeting the diminutive 'Marylka' Sobocinska
Good luck with the Memoirs
Elżbieta Zawacka
Elżbieta Zawacka
Barney
13 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
I did see that thread at the time but didnt know about her until Yedterday, I was reading a thing about Women Rebels and did a search and found this woman.
The thing that struck me was her working selling newspapers probably having to put up with all sorts.
Look at Maria Sobocinska who would have thought
Such a shame she wasnt mentioned my thread
I did see that thread at the time but didnt know about her until Yedterday, I was reading a thing about Women Rebels and did a search and found this woman.
The thing that struck me was her working selling newspapers probably having to put up with all sorts.
Look at Maria Sobocinska who would have thought
Barney
13 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
Maria 'Marylka' Sobocinska
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuti_Militari
Maria 'Marylka' Sobocinska
The Order Virtuti Militari (Latin for "To Military Valour") is Poland's highest military decoration for courage in the face of the enemy. It was created in 1792[1] by Poland's King Stanisław August Poniatowski and is considered as one of the oldest military decorations in the world still in use.[2]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuti_Militari
Marylka
Sobocinska
Virtuti militari
Barney
13 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
Who said "Women dont have Balls"?
They do, just higher up.
Shocking!, executed at 17 years of age.
I cant see the images as I'm in work will check them out later.
I'll keep an eye out for it.
I intend to read the last Beevor book and some of Janusz Tazbir's stuff (as Recommended Here) over Christmas and New Year.
Who said "Women dont have Balls"?
They do, just higher up.
Danuta Siedzikowna
Shocking!, executed at 17 years of age.
I cant see the images as I'm in work will check them out later.
Silent Is The Vistula by by Irena Orska
I'll keep an eye out for it.
I intend to read the last Beevor book and some of Janusz Tazbir's stuff (as Recommended Here) over Christmas and New Year.
Barney
13 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
Maria Wittekówna
She was born in 1899 in Trębki and moved to Kiev where she became the first female student but was first sworn into the Polskiej Organizacji Wojskowej (POW). She briefly took over military command after the arrest of the leadership.
The Bolsheviks placed a bounty on her head equivalent to her weight in gold. After the arrival of Polish troops (in Ukraine) she joined them and served firstly in the intelligence service headquarters, and then in the Sixth Army, returning to Poland, she took part in the defence of Lwow during the Polish-Bolshevik war, for which he was awarded the Srebrnym Krzyżem Virtuti Militari. (Silver Cross?).
She spend most of the rest of the 1920's until 1934 training women for service in various Military auxiliary services
During the second world war she was head of communications for the AK also fighting in the Warsaw uprising and avoiding capture.
After the war she was arrested and imprisoned by the communists working the rest of her days in a newspaper kiosk.
Lech Walesa appointed her Brigadier General in 1991
She died in 1997, ten years later a life-size bronze monument of her was unveiled at the Army Museum in Warsaw.
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You have to excuse this as the sources are mostly in Polish Google translate and educated guesses have been applied.
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[1wrzesnia39.pl/portal/39p/1301/8822/Maria_Wittekowna.html] - Link1
[polskieradio.pl/historia/artykul.aspx?id=83234] - Link2
[mon.gov.pl/pl/artykul/2900] - Link3
Have a think the next time you are buying a newspaper.
Maria Wittekówna
She was born in 1899 in Trębki and moved to Kiev where she became the first female student but was first sworn into the Polskiej Organizacji Wojskowej (POW). She briefly took over military command after the arrest of the leadership.
The Bolsheviks placed a bounty on her head equivalent to her weight in gold. After the arrival of Polish troops (in Ukraine) she joined them and served firstly in the intelligence service headquarters, and then in the Sixth Army, returning to Poland, she took part in the defence of Lwow during the Polish-Bolshevik war, for which he was awarded the Srebrnym Krzyżem Virtuti Militari. (Silver Cross?).
She spend most of the rest of the 1920's until 1934 training women for service in various Military auxiliary services
During the second world war she was head of communications for the AK also fighting in the Warsaw uprising and avoiding capture.
After the war she was arrested and imprisoned by the communists working the rest of her days in a newspaper kiosk.
Lech Walesa appointed her Brigadier General in 1991
She died in 1997, ten years later a life-size bronze monument of her was unveiled at the Army Museum in Warsaw.
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You have to excuse this as the sources are mostly in Polish Google translate and educated guesses have been applied.
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[1wrzesnia39.pl/portal/39p/1301/8822/Maria_Wittekowna.html] - Link1
[polskieradio.pl/historia/artykul.aspx?id=83234] - Link2
[mon.gov.pl/pl/artykul/2900] - Link3
Have a think the next time you are buying a newspaper.
Polish Soldiers 1920
Barney
12 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]
Maria Wittekówna who in October 1939 took charge of the Women's Auxiliary Service - of the 1st Bureau of the Polish Victory Service (Służba Zwycięstwu Polski - SWP) GHQ
From polishresistance-ak.org/12%20Article.htm
Has anyone any stories or pictures of women in the Armia Krajowa?
Maria Wittekówna who in October 1939 took charge of the Women's Auxiliary Service - of the 1st Bureau of the Polish Victory Service (Służba Zwycięstwu Polski - SWP) GHQ
Many women soldiers of the AK received decorations. In the Lwów district (Area III) 20 percent of those who received the Cross for Valour were women, likewise 40 percent of those who received the Silver Cross of Merit with swords and 50 percent of those who received the Bronze Cross of Merit with swords. In a few exceptional cases women were decorated with the Order Virtuti Militari (class V).
it should be stressed that the actual active engagement of women in the national liberation movement (in military operations both at home and abroad) was far greater than what was stated in official figures. Indeed, at the start of 1940 the Commander of the Union of Armed Struggle (ZwiÄ…zek Walki Zbrojnej - ZWZ), Col. Stefan Rowecki, declared that the women in Poland were carrying out the same types of military service as the men, and thus decreed that the term Women's Military Service be used.
The result of her mission (which coincided with legislative work being carried out by the Polish government and the Polish Supreme GHQ Command) was that the Polish President issued a decree, dated 27th October 1943, stating that 'female soldiers have the same rights and obligations as male soldiers.
From polishresistance-ak.org/12%20Article.htm
Has anyone any stories or pictures of women in the Armia Krajowa?
Maria Wittekówna
Radoslaw Unit
warsaw-1944
cc
Barney
12 Nov 2009
Life / How Polish are you? [74]
You are 9% Polish!
You are not Polish at all or you don't deserve to be. If you are not Catholic, you have refused the truth, Jesus Christ, God and Poland. Catholicism is the national religion of Poland.If you can't speak Polish, you are definetly not Polish!
There is a second
You are 100% Polish ;)!
You are so Polish...! You should be proud and happy. Go get yourself some good Polish kielbasa, couple of friends and beer--and celebrate. Polish style. :)
You are 9% Polish!
You are not Polish at all or you don't deserve to be. If you are not Catholic, you have refused the truth, Jesus Christ, God and Poland. Catholicism is the national religion of Poland.If you can't speak Polish, you are definetly not Polish!
There is a second
You are 100% Polish ;)!
You are so Polish...! You should be proud and happy. Go get yourself some good Polish kielbasa, couple of friends and beer--and celebrate. Polish style. :)
Barney
25 Oct 2009
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]
All entities require managers, I think you said that you were a monarchist, surely they also need managers all be it with funny names. I cant see them being any better than Republican managers. If all managers can be corrupted your vision fails.
To find one good manager and convince him to be loyal is a success.
All entities require managers, I think you said that you were a monarchist, surely they also need managers all be it with funny names. I cant see them being any better than Republican managers. If all managers can be corrupted your vision fails.