Jadwiga Apostoł, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish resistance fighter
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Place of Birth: Nowy Targ, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Jadwiga Apostoł
- Jadwiga Apostol-Staniszewska (22 December 1913 – 2 February 1990) was a Polish teacher in the interwar period, an underground activist during World War II, and a writer in postwar Poland. Under the German occupation of Podhale, Apostol (nom-de-guerre Barbara Spytkowska) became the co-founder of the Polish resistance group called the Tatra Confederation (Polish: Konfederacja Tatrzanska), a.k.a.
- Confederation of the Tatra Mountains, actively opposing the germanization of the Polish highlanders.Apostol survived Auschwitz and Malchow Nazi concentration camps, as well as Leipzig Arbeitslager before returning to Poland.
- After the Soviet liberation – as the only executive-member of the Tatra Confederation who was still alive – she was persecuted by the Ministry of Public Security and sentenced to five years in prison on trumped-up charges.Released the same year thanks to an amnesty, she was permanently barred from her occupation as a teacher.
- Jadwiga Apostol spent the rest of her life in Szczecin.
- She returned to Podhale shortly before her death and was buried in Nowy Targ.
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