Róża Maria Goździewska

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Róża Maria Goździewska
Sanitariuszka Rozyczka (Roza Maria Gozdziewska).jpg
Goździewska in 1944
Born
Róża Maria Goździewska

(1936-03-31)31 March 1936
Poland
Died29 October 1989(1989-10-29) (aged 53)
Alma mater Silesian University of Technology
Known forThe youngest nurse of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
Medical career
Profession Nurse

Róża Maria Goździewska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈruʐaˈmarʲjaɡɔʑˈd͡ʑɛfska] ; also known as Różyczka Goździewska, Różyczka being a diminutive of her first name, lit. "Little Rose"; 31 March 1936 – 29 October 1989) was a Polish nurse, known as the youngest nurse of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising when she was a child. [1]

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Biography

Goździewska was born on 31 March 1936. Her father was killed by the Gestapo in 1943. [1] A year later, on 1 August, the city of Warsaw was engulfed in the uprising against the German occupiers, with the civilian population caught in the middle. A number of child soldiers took part in the fighting on the side of the Polish insurgents. [2] [3]

Goździewska, eight years old at that time, was helping in the field hospital at 11 Moniuszki Street in Warsaw. She was described as a nurse because she made the patients smile, brought them water to drink, and tried to clear away the flies. [1] That field hospital was associated with the Polish insurgents' Home Army Koszta Company  [ pl ] unit. [4] [5] Her relative, Jadwiga Obretenny, 19 years old at the time, was also a nurse in the Uprising. [6]

A photo of Goździewska, wearing a Red Cross armband, was taken in early August 1944 by Eugeniusz Lokajski, nom-de-guerre "Brok", a Home Army resistance fighter and photographer, who would perish a month later. [5] [7] The Uprising, after incurring major casualties among the civilian participants, was eventually crushed by the Germans on 2 October. [2] [3] Goździewska and her sister survived the war. Afterwards, she attended a gymnasium run by the Ursulines, graduated from the Silesian University of Technology, and in 1958, she emigrated to France, where she got married and had two children. [5] [1] She died on 29 October 1989. [1]

Remembrance

In the early 21st century her photo gained recognition, having been used in various materials published by the Warsaw Uprising Museum. [5] Her photo was colorized in the 2010s, and by the late 2010s described as "well known" [8] and even as one of the most famous photos of the Warsaw Uprising. [9]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Stańczyk, Ewa (2015). "Heroes, Victims, Role Models: Representing the Child Soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising". Slavic Review. 74 (4): 738–759. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.738. ISSN   0037-6779. JSTOR   10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.738. S2CID   159663213.
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