Girls cursed

Girlfriends Exiled

“Let the Major “Lupaszko” live! – she has yet to shout “Inka” with a barrel pointed at herself erstwhile the shot was fired” – so the minute of death, seventeen-year-old orderly and underground activist, Danuta Kodkówny ps. “Inka” – is described by Szymon Nowak, author of the book “Girls cursed”.
Nowak presents the stories of sixteen women who acted in the anti-German and anti-communist underground, fighting against the hazard of life, wellness and their own freedom for an independent Polish state. These are stories of dramatic elections, combat and prison vegetation.
"The book is primarily a tribute to those Polish heroes, frequently anonymous and nameless, who did not lay down their weapons and reminded the Bolshevik occupier of what the words: Homeland, freedom and independency mean," wrote the author in the introduction.
Nowak presents the past of sixteen women who acted in the anti-German and anti-communist underground, fighting against the hazard of life, wellness and their own freedom for an independent Polish state. These are stories of dramatic elections, combat and prison vegetation.
The conspiracy activity of most of the girls, started inactive during planet War II, before the Soviets appeared in Poland. any of them participated in the anti-German conspiracy, under the signs of the National Army or military national organizations – National Armed Forces (NSZ) and National Military Organisation (NEW). erstwhile the alleged “liberation” came from the East, underground activists understood that free and independent Poland was names only on paper, so they returned to the conspiracy, supporting their husbands, brothers and fathers.
Cursed heroines were subjected to repression by the communist state each day, including prosecution by the safety Office. The norm was night raids, provocations, and home search. "At 4 o'clock in the morning, their home was armed with muzzles. They broke down the doors and chased everyone out in the yard, where under the barrels of rifles they kept them in the snow in a cold winter night,” describes the communicative of Stefania Krupa, ps. “Perelek”, belonging to Józef Zadzierski’s branch “Wołyniak”, the author of the publication. "Perelek" cried erstwhile the executioners began to bully her husband. [...] Six ubeks systematically beat “Kula” with sticks and firearm flasks. He stood unarmed, barefoot and half-naked in the snow, and the blows fell on his head and full body.” Aleksander Pityński, ps. “Kula”, the husband of “Pereleka”, inactive felt the burden of repression during the martial law.
Some of the persecuted for the remainder of their lives hid from the services, changing their place of residence, for at any time a “kind” neighbour could study them.
The destiny of the girls cursed was marked by suffering, pain and death. Those of them who trusted communist power found their mistake painfully. 1 specified female was Emilia Malessa "Marcysia", a Warsaw activist of the Freedom and independency Association (WiN), arrested by UB on 31 October 1945. A girl after respective interrogations, talking to the president of the WiN colonel. Jane Rzepecki, she concluded that she would describe the power of her cell, along with the names of the people she worked with. "She thought that in these times it would be for the benefit of everyone, for Poland, for her and for each of the conspirators revealed," Nowak wrote. After her release from prison and pardoned by president Bolesław Bierut, she began a conflict to free her colleagues from the conspiracy, marked by the environment as a traitor. After respective unsuccessful attempts, a hunger strike, unsuccessful letter sending, she committed suicide on June 5, 1949, and saying goodbye to her colleagues: “I have failed in all parts of my life. [...] I trusted any people, and they tricked me.”

Women who went to Ubek prisons were usually not treated better than men. Many of them were beaten, tortured, and tortured until they broke. "They put belts on it, or more specifically, buckles on the belts. They did not aim at any circumstantial place, they hit where he would fall: on his legs, head, arms" – he describes Lidia Lwow-Eberle's hearing, ps. “Lala”, an orderly, the fiancée of Zygmunt Szzendzierz Szupaszki, the author of the book. Even more tragic is the communicative of the sister Isabella (Zofia Łuszczkiewicz), a nun from the Assembly of Sisters of Mercy in Krakow.
"When she wondered about the answer besides long – they beat it – she presented the way of the Nowak proceeding – erstwhile any answer was not satisfactory to the torturers, they told her to make an infinite number of squats. 1 time, she made 2 1000 of them before she passed out. [...] The bums saw that he had had enough, but alternatively of ending the interview, they ordered a stand. They ordered them to take off their shirts and opened the window wide, specially making a draft, Isabella stood barefoot on concrete and slow turned into blue ice opiate. As she wobbled on her feet from fatigue and sleeplessness, they poured cold water again."
Until the last moments of their lives, they had large courage and heroism, they were relentless towards the communist system. Like Irena Odrzyvołek, who, as a prison defender in the Krakow detention of St. Michael, helped to free the imprisoned soldiers of the AK, and was subsequently sentenced to death, refusing to sign a request for pardon by president Bierut.
Communist activists, presented in the book, had no mercy or scruples, even for pregnant women. The proof of this is the communicative of 22-year-old Helena Motikina, ps. “The Child” who fought in separate Franciszek Olszówka, ps. “Otto”, sentenced to death and shot in advanced pregnancy.
An example of the integrity and fortitude of the women's spirit of the day is besides the communicative of the sentenced to death, only seventeen-year-old orderly – Danuta Słodkówny ps. “Inka”. She did not break during the investigation and remained completely faithful to her homeland and her beliefs. "Let the Major "Lupasko" live! – she has yet to shout "Inka" with a barrel pointed at herself erstwhile the shot is fired" – the author of the book describes specified last moments of life, this unbreakable girl. She herself wrote, “Tell your grandma that I behaved properly” in a flu in prison and handed to her grandmother.
Communist activists, presented in the book, had no mercy or scruples, even for pregnant women. The proof of this is the communicative of 22-year-old Helena Motikina, ps. “The Child” who fought in separate Franciszek Olszówka, ps. “Otto”, sentenced to death and shot in advanced pregnancy. The execution itself has so far caused much controversy, due to the way it was carried out. “The Child” and the another convicts were placed against the wall, and the soldiers who came to execute the conviction were clearly drunk. erstwhile the shots were fired, the female was not killed, but injured, and then she screamed out, “Mom, Mommy, kill me, please.” An officer in charge approached her and shot her in the head at close range. Prisoners who heard and observed dramatic events, as part of the protest, began to pound on the walls with metallic plates. "The sound was like a twelve storms started at erstwhile over the Wrocław prison. The protracted storm of rebellion was to proceed for a long time," the author describes.
The stories of these brave women are necessarily connected with the stories of the "soldiers cursed" after the war sentenced to oblivion, most persecuted by communists. Love seems to have no chance of success, in these hard times, but in spite of everything people fell in love and married, not always having happiness. The tragic communicative of Janina's love with the Oleśkiewiczs, ps. “Jaga”, wife of Major Francis the Swearer, ps. “Father John”, is simply a confirmation of this thesis. First, in preparation for the wedding, they were attacked by the Germans. Young survivors, but many guerrillas, respective wedding guests and as many as a twelve villagers died in the fight. Then ‘Jaga’, being 7 months pregnant, was arrested by the UB and during an apparent effort to escape, shot with gunshots to the back.
The book's advantage is photographs, previously unpublished, which let the reader to realize the stories described better. The “Cursed Girls” will be released on February 25 by Frond's publishing house.
Szymon Nowak (born 1973) is simply a postgraduate of the Faculty of past of the Academy of Humanities and Education in Łowicz. He cooperates with the Warsaw Uprising Memorial Association 1944 and, as a reviewer, with the portal historia.org.pl. Author of respective publications, among others, “The Last Assault. From Old Town to Śródmieście 1944" (2012), “Cursed Divisions” (2014) and “Warsaw 1944. alternate past of the Warsaw Uprising” (2014).

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Katarzyna Krzykowska
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