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Halina Regulska (née Maciejowska) (14 December 1899 – December 1994) was a Polish racing driver, socialite, a member of the underground Polish resistance movement in World War II who took part in the Warsaw Uprising, and an author.
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Halina Regulska (née Maciejowska) (14 December 1899 – December 1994) was a Polish racing driver, socialite, a member of the underground Polish resistance movement in World War II who took part in the Warsaw Uprising, and an author.
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Early life Halina Maciejowska was born in Zawiercie on 14 December 1899, the daughter of Klementyna (née Czerwińska) and Ignacy Maciejowski. After the creation of the Second Polish Republic in 1918, in the aftermath of the First World War, Halina Maciejowska co-organised the Komitet Opieki nad Żołnierzem Polskim (Committee for the Protection of Polish Soldiers). The committee supplied clothes and organised food and medicine for soldiers fighting on the borders of the newly established Republic of Poland. She prepared to take part in the Silesian Uprisings (1919–1921) by completing a Red Cross course, keen to support the Polish nationalist drive to bring what was part of the Weimar Republic into the newly founded Polish Republic. When living in Dąbrowa Basin, she organised a banner welcoming home the troops who had fought at the Battle of Lemberg (1918) (also known as the Defense of Lwów).
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Marriage In November 1919, Halina Maciejowska married Janusz Regulski, a wealthy industrialist fourteen years her senior, becoming known as Halina Regulska. In 1923, inflation was ruinously high and the Polish marka was rapidly devaluating, so Regulski decided to invest his fortune in a property called "Zarybie" on the edge of the village of Żółwin, Masovian Voivodeship, not far from the garden city, Podkowa Leśna. The property was initially two acres with small buildings. Regulska recalled years later: The location of Zarybie was exceptionally beautiful. To the north and west it was surrounded by an old, tall pine forest, and to the south and east the space was open and free and drowned in sun and light'. Over time, the plot grew to forty hectares. A grand villa stood on it. And right next door, the fashionable Podkowa Leśna housing estate began to emerge. The family had the house rebuilt and the small plot of land was soon transformed into a 40-acre French style formal garden, with volleyball and cricket pitches and a tennis court. In time, the Regulski family managed to create a thriving self-sufficient farm with its own dairy, greenhouses, orchard and arable fields". The couple's daughter Hanna was…
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Motor racing The Regulskis' shared passion was motoring. The first car they bought was a Tatra T 30 with a four-cylinder air-cooled engine. Janusz Regulski first took part in a car rally in 1925. He was involved in the organisation of automobile sport and from 1926 was chairman of the sports committee of the Automobile Club of Poland and vice-president of the organisation. In 1926 Halina Regulska took part in her first rally. She became known as a very talented competitor. In the same year, the Regulski family exchanged their Tatra for a Métallurgique limousine, and soon also bought a Bugatti T37 sports car. In 1927, Regulska placed in the lead in the 2nd Ladies' Rally at the wheel of the Métallurgique. The two-day rally took place on the route between Warsaw and Poznań (and back), a distance of 660km. She drew the attention of the sports reporter of the "Auto" monthly, who wrote about her: "Mrs Regulska, winner of the fifth prize, left everyone in awe, because it is hard to believe that such a petite person could drive a huge and heavy limousine to its destination in perfect shape". The following year, the rally had three stages and…
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Second World War During the Siege of Warsaw in 1939, Halina Regulska was a member of the Civic Guard, (her husband was the commandant) and she worked in a hospital as an orderly alongside their daughter Hanna (nicknamed Hanka). Regulska later describes the time as "Scenes out of Dante." Their Lancia Aprilia, bought in 1938, which Janusz Regulski drove around Warsaw on his duties in the Civic Guard, was completely destroyed by an artillery shell explosion. Later, Regulska organised care for university staff displaced from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań by the war. With the encouragement of family and friends, Regulska organised a safe house for people in the Polish underground movement. Those who stayed in the "Zarybie", usually on false papers, included Czesław Miłosz, Halina and Bernard Zakrzewski, Zofia Korbońska and Stefan Korboński, Jerzy Iłłakowicz, Bolesław Sobociński, Julian Piasecki and Zbigniew Stypułkowski. The Regulski family issued false employment documents to many people, protecting them from being taken away to work in Germany. A receiving station was placed in the barn and radio monitoring was carried out, and at night, airdrops of weapons were intercepted. During the 1944 Warsaw Uprising Regulska was a "peżetka", the nickname given to around 200…
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Post war period After the war, Regulski was sentenced to 14 years in prison and his property was confiscated for his contacts with the underground. (Their son Jerzy had been arrested earlier). Halina Regulska was left charge of the Zarybie house with five elderly family members in her care. The house was owned jointly with her husband so she retained it but the local authorities forced additional tenants into the house. Regulski was released from prison after seven years and in 1959, after selling the Zarybie house to Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Regulskis settled in Warsaw. She died in 1994 and was buried in the family grave at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw (cemetery section B-4-11,12).
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Publications Halina Regulska published two volumes of memoirs from the siege of Warsaw and the years of occupation in the Second World War: Dziennik z oblężonej Warszawy and Tamte lata, tamte czasy: wspomnienia z II wojny światowej. She also wrote the book Samochodem przez dwudziestolecie.
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In popular culture The character of Halina Regulska appeared in Ałbena Grabowska's novel Stulecie Winnych. In the TV series of the book, Stulecie Winnych, the role of Regulska is played by actress Marta Ojrzyńska.