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The Girl Who Acted Right
On August 28, 1946 the communist authorities (ruling Poland occupied by Soviets since 1945) murdered this 17 year old girl whose crime was being a medical orderly in the anti-communist underground. Her name was Danuta Siedzikówna, nickname Inka.
She was captured in July 1946. While in prison she was beaten and tortured but refused to give up any information about her contacts in the anti-communist underground and their meeting points. She was sentenced to death after a "trial" that lasted two hours only.
In her last secret letter smuggled out of the prison she wrote: "Please tell my grandmother, that I have acted right".
Six days before her 18th birthday she was tied to a wooden stake in the basement of the prison. She refused a blindfold.
Members of the firing squad didn't want to kill her. All of them missed on purpose, only grazing her body with several bullets. It was the firing squad leader who eventually killed her with a handgun.
Her last words were "Niech żyje Polska!" (Long live Poland!) and "Niech żyje Łupaszka" (her commanding officer).
Her body was not returned to her Grandma. Inka was buried clandestinely and unrespectfully by the authorities. Her remains were eventually found and DNA-confirmed in 2014/2015.
Please read more about her:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danuta_Siedzikówna
(her parents were war heroes too).
I took this photo at a concert dedicated to our indomitable soldiers in early 2013.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7FjtfTs9pE
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Podziemna+Armia+powraca
She was captured in July 1946. While in prison she was beaten and tortured but refused to give up any information about her contacts in the anti-communist underground and their meeting points. She was sentenced to death after a "trial" that lasted two hours only.
In her last secret letter smuggled out of the prison she wrote: "Please tell my grandmother, that I have acted right".
Six days before her 18th birthday she was tied to a wooden stake in the basement of the prison. She refused a blindfold.
Members of the firing squad didn't want to kill her. All of them missed on purpose, only grazing her body with several bullets. It was the firing squad leader who eventually killed her with a handgun.
Her last words were "Niech żyje Polska!" (Long live Poland!) and "Niech żyje Łupaszka" (her commanding officer).
Her body was not returned to her Grandma. Inka was buried clandestinely and unrespectfully by the authorities. Her remains were eventually found and DNA-confirmed in 2014/2015.
Please read more about her:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danuta_Siedzikówna
(her parents were war heroes too).
I took this photo at a concert dedicated to our indomitable soldiers in early 2013.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7FjtfTs9pE
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Podziemna+Armia+powraca
appo-fam, Ronald Stachowiak, Leon_Vienna, Giorgio Bree and 13 other people have particularly liked this photo
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Marta Wojtkowska club has replied to MaggsMep clubIt is the 76th anniversary of her death today...
Thank you for the link,Marta. I really appreciated finding out this history.
Marta Wojtkowska club has replied to Deborah Lundbech clubInka was only one of many but eventually became a role model for young people joining now the Territorial Defense Forces.
Unfortunately there are still people here (in Poland) who hate her. Her grave and memorials/statues are repeatedly desecrated by evildoers (wannabe communists and leftists) who can't stand somebody so pure, so brave, so patriotic.
Marta Wojtkowska club has replied to BoroI wish I could add a translation of the lyrics of the song "The Underground Army Returns" because they are special too.
Boro has replied to Marta Wojtkowska clubat the meeting point of two occupations
Angry posters shouted about them:
the ignoble dwarfs of reaction
They could not accept
the red pestilence
And they believed in the return of the Polish Borderlands
Waiting for orders
A nation that wants to be free
must fight for freedom
To fight uprisings, chase traitors away
Otherwise it can do nothing
The people's government proved
by acting decisively
That it knows how to exterminate people
no worse than the Nazis
Rotmistrz Pilecki survived Auschwitz
died from a secret police bullet
Under this regime, the cursed soldiers
had no human rights
A nation that wants to be free
must fight for freedom
To make uprisings, to chase away traitors
Otherwise it can do nothing
In wolf-friendly thickets of forests
They comforted each other
That a third war is just a matter of time
and that Stalin would lose it
They believed that the post-Yalta order
to ashes of the post-Stalin order
They believed that their lives in hardship
is a historic rationality
A nation that wants to be free
must fight for freedom
To make uprisings, to chase traitors away
Otherwise it can do nothing
Sentenced to the East by the will of the West
Fought for independence
Thus they saved the nation's honour
And many of them died
We will remember them constantly
It is our homework
Today the underground army returns to history in all its glory
the underground army returns
A nation that wants to be free
Must fight for freedom
Make uprisings, chase away traitors
Otherwise it can do nothing
A nation that wants to be free
Must fight for freedom
Make uprisings, chase traitors away
otherwise it means nothing
Marta Wojtkowska club has replied to BoroWhere have you found them???
Marta Wojtkowska club has replied to Andy Rodker clubWords from Inka's last message to her Grandma (about acting right) are now repeated on very special occasions like when a civilian saves other people's lives risking his own.
Marta Wojtkowska club has replied to Boarischa Krautmo clubTo be remembered...
Marta Wojtkowska club has replied to Dominique Sarrazin clubThank you for the photo and the history. Visited all the links.
You live in a very strong country, Marta.
Marta Wojtkowska club has replied to Peggy C clubThank you for visiting the links.
Poland stays strong because we value our history and we are constantly trying to learn from it. Not that we haven't been making mistakes but who doesn't?
Quand on pense que le communisme était censé représenter la liberté (par rapport aux systèmes médiévaux), quel gâchis ! Le vrai communisme qui était l'espoir de beaucoup de gens n'a jamais existé.
"All powers are damned" (Louise Michel)
Marta Wojtkowska club has replied to Typo93 clubMarta Wojtkowska club has replied to Gabi Lombardo clubThank you, Gabi!
Litlle, great woman.
Marta Wojtkowska club has replied to Giorgio BreeYes, she was...
Giorgio Bree has replied to Marta Wojtkowska clubDuring the WWII there are been many young people like Inka killed by nazists.
Lepa Radic, Emanuele Artom, Helmuth Hübener, Masha Bruskina, just to mention a few.
There is more to learn from these young people.
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