Jadwiga Bobińska

Jadwiga Bobińska ps. "Bogna", "Hera", "Kuna", "Wyga" (born October 15, 1902 in Bedzin, May 29, 1943) is a chemist, member of the Home Army.

Curriculum vitae

Jadwiga Bobińska lived in Warsaw and graduated in Piotrków Trybunalski in a female gymnasium. She graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology after finishing her chemistry degree. At the Department of Physical Chemistry she was an assistant of Professor Wojciech Świętosławski and she worked at the Institute of Radiation Protection at ul. Populous. Since 1940, in the conspiracy where in the first period of organizing the prison communications of the Armed Struggle Union was a manager of one of the two outer grid cells. At ul. Mokotowska 39 (in her apartment) was a "mailbox" of conspiratorial mail, which was delivered from the prisoners and information (Jadwiga Bobińska she spread them) for them from families and organizations. In the years 1942-1943 she worked at Zbigniew Sujkowski in the Office of the Union of Retaliation and Kedywie KG of the Home Army for the production of explosives, lighters and toxic agents for diversion and economic sabotage. She was arrested on April 13, 1943 with material loaded, but despite torture in the investigation and strict isolation at the Pawiak nothing disclosed nor did she use the delivered poison. Together with a group of over 30 female prisoners, Pawiak was executed in a collective execution in the ruins of the ghetto.

Jadwiga Bobińska was posthumously awarded the Virtuti Militari Order.

It was honored in the collective commemoration of Polish chemists on the tomb of prof. dr. Wanda Polaczek and Helena Czarnodolowa (widows of chemists) at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw; Here are the dead bodies of chemists, whose ashes in 1939-45 were disseminated by the enemy. They found no place in the Polish cemetery silence. Bibliography

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