Aniela Krzywoń
Aniela Krzywoń | |
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Born | 27 May 1925 Puźniki, "Emilia Plater" Independent Women's Battalion |
Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Virtuti Militari 5th Class |
Aniela Krzywoń (27 May 1925 – 12 October 1943) was a private in the "Emilia Plater" Independent Women's Battalion of the Polish People's 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.[1]
Early life
Krzywoń was born in the village of Puźniki, then located in the Second Polish Republic; the area the village once was in currently located within present-day Ukraine since it had become part of the Ukrainian SSR in 1939. Her father fought in the Polish–Soviet War; after their village became part of the Ukraine the Krzywoń family and many other Polish families that had been deemed "politically unreliable" were forcibly deported to the Irkutsk Oblast of Siberia and later relocated to the city of Kansk. There Aniela began working as a machinist at a local timber mill until she voluntarily joined the army in 1943 to fight in World War II.[2][3]
Military career
Krzywoń joined the
See also
References
- ISBN 9781780966922.
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- ^ "Официальный портал Красноярского края / Кживонь Анеля Тадеушевна". www.krskstate.ru. Archived from the original on 2018-09-27. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- Politizdat.
- ^ "Кживонь Анеля Тадеушовна — Интернет-энциклопедии Красноярского края". my.krskstate.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2018-05-07. Retrieved 2018-05-06.