Aniela Krzywoń, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aniela Krzywoń

Polish soldier

Date of Birth: 27-May-1925

Place of Birth: Monastyryska Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 12-Oct-1943

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Aniela Krzywon (27 May 1925 – 12 October 1943) was a private in the "Emilia Plater" Independent Women's Battalion of the Polish Army during the Second World War and became the only woman in history who was not a citizen of the Soviet Union to be awarded the USSR's highest honor for bravery, the title Hero of the Soviet Union, after she died of injuries sustained while rescuing important military documents from a burning truck after a Luftwaffe bombing raid.