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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 MolsdorfOflag 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 OberlangenOberlangen 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
