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Combat-nurse Barbara Wajszczuk - "Basia", "Baśka"

"Scout" Company of the "Gustaw" Battalion, "Rog" Concentration Group of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa)*


Barbara Wajszczuk (084)
1926 - 1944

Barbara - "Basia", "Baska", gravely wounded earlier on August 13, 1944 during explosion of the German tank-trap, perished in the basement of the bombarded hospital building (in spite of the Red Cross signs on the roof) at no.3 J. Kilinski Street in the Old Town - on August 26, 1944.

*Armia Krajowa (AK)/Home Army - main and largest Underground Resistance fighting force during WWII, subordinate to the Polish Government-in-Exile in London.

Below is a paragraph from the book:

Hanna Michalska . Maria Stopień . Bożena Tazbir-Tomaszewska . Wanda Turkowska . Wacława Zastocka: SŁOWNIK uczestniczek walki o niepodległość Polski 1939-1945. Poległe i zmarłe w okresie okupacji niemieckiej. (Distionary of the (female) participants in the struggle for independance of Poland 1939-1945. Killed in action and deceased during German occupation). Publisher: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy Warszawa 1988 ISBN 83-06-01195-3.

WAJSZCZUKÓWNA BARBARA, "Basia", "Baśka" (1926-26 VIII 1944), born in Krasnystaw, daughter of Edmund, a physician and Maria nee Biegunski, residing in Warsaw during the occupation; Girl Scout in the "Azure" Squad of the Polish Scout Troops, underwent military nursing training; combat nurse in the "Scout" Company of the "Gustaw" Battalion, the "Rog" Concentration Group of the Home Army (AK) during Warsaw Uprising, severely wounded in the Old Town during explosion of a tank-trap, placed in the hospital at 3 J. Kilinski Street, died in the bombarded building; buried in the Powazki Military Cemetery, quarter A-25; her name is memorized on a plaque of the symbolic grave of the "Gustaw" Battalion, quarter B-24; her brother Antoni died on Zielna(?) Street, second brother Wojciech - near Pecice. 

49:123, sygn. III/42/49. teczka "Powstanie Warszawskie",s. 23;156; 318,s. 454; 495, s. 89,128,132; 996; rel. Heleny Gliwic.

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Girl Scouts - Combat Nurses in the AK "Gustaw" Battalion  - Ala Dybczynska and Basia Wajszczuk, both from the 29th "Tatrzanska" WZDH "Blekitna"("Tatra Mountains" Warsaw Female Scout Detachment - "Azure"). Basia became severily wounded at the time of explosion of a tank-mine in the Old Town on 13.VIII.1944, died in the bombed out Hospital on the Kilinski street on 26.VIII.1944. Ala Dybczynska, "Alinka" was killed in action on 17.IX.1944 while in the First Aid Station on  46 Marszalkowska street.

They gave their Lives to God and to the Motherland.   

 

The wounded and the Nurses - Girl Scouts from the AK "Gustaw" Battalion lost their lives or were killed in action in the totally destroyed building of the Insurgent Hospital at 1/3 Kilinski street on 26.VIII - view of the building and of the surroundings. 

Remnants of the tank-mine, which the Germans exploded remotely at the location of the "Gustaw" Battalion at Kilinski street on 13.VIII.1944.   

(pictures above - courtesy of  Prof. dr hab.n.med. - Jerzy Świderski, ps. "Lubicz'")

Old Town



Wall fragment of the house at no. 3 Kilinski Street in Warsaw (state immediately after the Uprising - currently does not exist) with an inscription informing that at that site, in the insurgent hospital of the "Gustaw" Battalion of the AK, perished under the rubble several wounded nurses. Barbara was one of them.

 

Plaque commemorating the Field Hospital of the "Gustaw" Battalion and its commandant Dr "Morwa", Tadeusz Pogorski - at the site of the removed wall fragment at no.3 Kilinski Street shown above. Inscription on the lower part of the plaque reads: "After surrender of the Old Town on 2.IX.1944 the Germans murdered 11 wounded who were unable to be evacuated through the sewer canals, including two female nurses". Near by - a plaque commemorating those killed on August 13, 1944 during tank-trap explosion. The inscription reads: "To the memory of soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising and civilians who died here on August 13, 1944 from explosion of the German tank".

Around the corner on Dluga Street (near the Field Cathedral of the Polish Army) - plaques commemorating victims of the bombed AK hospital (20-VIII-1944) and the Headquarter and hospital of the "Gozdawa" Battalion. The inscription says:"Here on the 20th of August 1944 perished 120 wounded and personnel of the AK hospital destroyed by the Hitler's Luftwaffe in spite of a special sign of the Red Cross.

Powązki

Grave of Barbara Wajszczuk and Halina Soroczyńska (A-25)

"Died together at their post"
 

Symbolic Grave of the "Gustaw" Battalion (B-24)

 

Memorial Wall of the "Harnas" and "Gustaw" Battalions (B-24)


 

 
See corresponding branch of the Tree

See also:

Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw >>>