Jadwiga Apostoł
Polish resistance fighter
Died when: 76 years 42 days (913 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
.jpg?width=300)
Jadwiga Apostoł-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, Apostoł (nom-de-guerre Barbara Spytkowska) became the co-founder of the Polish resistance group called the Tatra Confederation (Polish: Konfederacja Tatrzańska), a.k.a.
Confederation of the Tatra Mountains, actively opposing the germanization of the Polish highlanders.Apostoł 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 Apostoł spent the rest of her life in Szczecin.
She returned to Podhale shortly before her death and was buried in Nowy Targ.
Related People
Polish resistance fighter
Polish resistance fighter
Polish resistance fighter