Danuta Siedzikówna
Polish anti-communist resistance member
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- Danuta Helena Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: Inka ; underground name: Danuta Obuchowicz ; 3 September 1928 – 28 August 1946) was a Polish medical orderly in the 4th Squadron of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Home Army.
- Considered a national heroine, she was captured, tortured and sentenced to death at the age of 17 by the communist authorities.
- Her father, Wacław Siedzik, was a forester sent to Siberia under the Tsar for involvement in pro-Polish independence organisations.
- In 1940 he was arrested by the NKVD and once again deported to Russia.
- Her mother, Eugenia, née Tymińska, was a member of the Home Army and was killed by the Gestapo in September 1943.
Danuta Helena Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: Inka; underground name: Danuta Obuchowicz; 3 September 1928 – 28 August 1946) was a Polish medical orderly in the 4th Squadron of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Home Army. In 1946 she served with the Brigade's 1st Squadron in Poland's Pomerania region. Considered a national heroine, she was captured, tortured and sentenced to death at the age of 17 by the communist authorities.
Early life
Siedzikówna was born on 3 September 1928 in Guszczewina, near Narewka, Bielsk Podlaski. Her father, Wacław Siedzik, was a forester sent to Siberia under the Tsar for involvement in pro-Polish independence organisations. He came back to Poland in 1923. In 1940 he was arrested by the NKVD and once again deported to Russia.
In 1941 her father Wacław Siedzik joined Władysław Anders' Polish Army (he died in Teheran in 1943). Her mother, Eugenia, née Tymińska, was a member of the Home Army and was killed by the Gestapo in September 1943. She was the granddaughter of engineer Jan Tyminski and the great-granddaughter of the Orthodox priest Herman Tymiński and Karl Rjepetsky, a Russian Lieutenant Colonel whose body was discovered in Ardahan in 2017.
The son of Waclaw's sister, Paweł Hur, finished the Polish Air Force Academy in Dęblin and took part in Battle of Britain. Siedzikówna grew up with her siblings Wiesława (17.03.1927–29.06.2004) and Irena Laska (19.02.1931 - 02.04.1978) in the forester's lodge near Guszczewina. After their father was exiled, they moved to Narewka. The girls attended grammar school in Narewka until 1939. During the Second World War, until 1943 all three girls studied in the Salesian Sisters School in Różanystok near Dąbrowa Białostocka.
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