Wanda Lesisz (15 July 1926 – 16 July 2017) was a Polish resistance fighter[1] during World War II. She was honoured Righteous Among the Nations for hiding Jews from the Nazis.[2][3] She married Tadeusz Lesisz.,[4] who was a Polish naval officer. Her father served in the Polish Army before the war, and was murdered by the Soviets in the Katyn_massacre. She and her sisters attended a military school taught by a minister until the age of 15, after she began attending a school run by the wife of the same minister.[citation needed]
While German forces were advancing through pressure, Wanda and her family had to make their journey on an alternate route. Her new home had no windows, no glass, and cracked radiators.[5] This became her new life and, in such, she got a job as a newspaper distributor. However, this quickly changed when she was asked to join the underground, which her mother and sisters were also a part of.[6] Wanda's main job was distributing messages, however she also distributed weapons to other members of the resistance. In addition to this, she assisted an English Beach Jumper who lived with them for a short amount of time, but later was apprehended and killed.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Lukas, R.C. (2013). Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust. University Press of Kentucky. p. 109. ISBN 9780813143323. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ "Wanda Lesisz | Register". The Times & The Sunday Times. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ "Wanda Gutowska-Lesisz, fought in Warsaw Uprising – obituary". The Telegraph. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ Dembinski, Michael (12 October 2009). "Tadeusz Lesisz: Pole who sailed with the Royal Navy and saw action on D-Day and in the Battle of the Atlantic". The Independent. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Archiwum Historii Mówionej – Wanda Lesisz". 1944.pl. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
- ^ "Resistance | World War II, Europe". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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