Helena Mathea besides called Matejanka or Bloody Julka (born 25 January 1922 in Katowice) A baby bird suspected of collaborating with the Gestapo. According to the findings of the Katowice Institute of National Memory reported about 10 underground activists, as a consequence they were arrested and killed. However, the list of her victims is larger.
She is the daughter of the Silesian insurgent, railway councillor Stefan Mathei and Klara Mathei (national name: Krzikalla). Her uncle was priest Charles Mathea, MP for the Silesian Sejm, and after the war parish priest of St Peter and Paul in Katowice. They lived in a villa at 5 Silesian Street in Katowice.
When planet War II broke out, she was 17. It went to conspiracy – a local branch of the Polish Armed Forces. She rapidly became a courier. She received the nickname “Julka”. In October 1940, her ward arrested the Gestapo, and most of its members were killed in executions or camps. It was at that time that the suspected “Julka” was the closest co-worker of the branch chief Karol Kornas, but was released from prison. According to any sources, she invited participants of the independency movement to a cafe where they were seized by the Gestapo. Charles Kornas was subjected to a brutal interrogation during which he refused to testify. Then the Gestapo would arrange a confrontation: Kornas was approached by “Julka” and, beating him, began to exchange details about the opposition operations. Before being executed by beheading, Kornas was able to compose the flups: “Julka is an agent”.
After the subsequent failures of the resistance, an officer of Polish intelligence Antoni Goszczyk arrived in Katowice, who was alarmed by the position of the female and the influence she had. He stated that she was working with the Gestapo and demanded its liquidation. On the night of 17 to 18 December 1941, the Gestapo arrested 456 soldiers of the Katowice Inspectorate of the ZWZ. 3 were killed in action, and most of the others later died in camps and executions. Due to the probable engagement of “Krwajna Julka” in this event, the Military peculiar Court of the Silesian territory of the AK issued a death conviction on her. Mathea, however, went to Vienna for medical studies.
After the war, she returned to Katowice and began convincing the remaining people who knew her about her innocence. However, she found no support among them. She felt threatened and began preparing to leave Silesia. At the Katowice station she was stopped by 1 of the betrayed – Ryszard Koczy, whose brother died during the war. Trying to halt her, he called the railway defender to help. Mathea, however, managed to sneak out, convincing the guards that Richard Koczy was a lunatic who was stalking her. shortly in disguise, Sister PCK fled to Britain. She married Andrzej Służewski in London and accepted his name. In 1949 the Polish authorities requested the extradition of Helena Mathei, but unsuccessfully. Launched in 2001 by the Branch Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation, another investigation was suspended in 2006 due to the deficiency of the anticipation of a location.
Meanwhile, in 2006, after 3 years of private investigation, Piotr Platkow, writer “Gazeta Wyborcza” managed to scope “Matejanka” and interview her. She explained that she was released from prison due to the fact that she was fond of German criminal commissioner Paul Breuche. As a actual perpetrator of the deconspiration, she identified German agent Paul Ulczok, sentenced to death in a post-war trial. She claimed that she was afraid to come to Poland due to the fact that she did not believe in the fair judgement of communist courts. She besides claimed that the full communicative of her betrayal was invented by the communist authorities to destruct Charles Mathea. However, GW journalists refused to give the address “Matejanka” to IPN prosecutors in the UK in order to defend her from deportation to Poland and bring her to justice.
He is presently hiding in Britain, most likely protected by British peculiar Services in exchange for becoming their confidant.
