Maria Ivanovic

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Maria Iwanicka ps. "Małgorzata" (born January 19, 1916, died August 12, 1943) is a chemist, member of RN-R Falanga, nurse-in-law, lieutenant of the Confederacy. Curriculum vitae Maria Iwanicka was born on 19 January 1914 in Tiotkino (Russia) and was the daughter of Wacław (technologist) and Sophia of Rodowicz. She lived in Warsaw. She was a graduate of junior high school. Cecilia Plater-Zyberkny, in 1934 she graduated from high school. Scout 6 of the Warsaw Women's Scout Team and instructor of the Harcerek Warsaw Chorus. Member of the National Falcon Movement, and in connection with her activity in it was imprisoned in the Pawiak. She graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology and was awarded the title of chemistry engineer. She actively participated in the defense of Warsaw in September 1939 as the commanding officer of the OPL blocks at ul. Filtrowa. During the extinguishing of the fires she was burned, but nevertheless she gave her blood to wounded soldiers. She was in the conspiracy since the fall of 1939, and in 1940 she became a col. Stanislaw Tatar "Erasmus" (Head of the Operations Division of KG ZWZ). She went to the Confederation of Nations in November 1941, and from May 1942 she was active in the leadership of the women's service. Appointed in September 1942 as head of the SC. At that time, she completed a KN subgroup and a sanitary course. As a liaison officer was assigned at the end of May 1943 to the northern part of the Warsaw voivodeship and in the Augustów Primeval Forest VIII Strike Force (UBK) KN (Battalion commanded by Capt. Julian Jagodziński "Stefan Pawłowski"). In August, a camp located near the village of Okołek in the area. Augustus was attacked by German gendarmes. His commander was killed, and Maria Iwanicka, in spite of his wound, shielded his colleagues. She was captured when she did not listen to the call to surrender. Being seriously wounded refused to testify. She was tortured at the police station in Sucha Rzeczka.

She was posthumously awarded the Virtuti Militari Order and the Martial Cross and appointed lieutenant.

In dry lands on the lake Serwy was erected after the liberation of the obelisk, on which her name is listed, and the primary school built after the war with the effort of society carries her name.

Her brother Stanislaw Iwanicki also fell in the Warsaw Uprising. Bibliography

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