Hanna Stadnik (23 February 1929 – 1 December 2020) was a Polish social worker, women's rights activist, and veteran of the Polish resistance movement in World War II. In 1944, at the age of 15-years old, Stadnik participated in the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi German occupation. She was imprisoned by German authorities for the duration of the war, but later received numerous awards and recognitions for her role in the uprising. Stadnik later served as a longtime Vice President of the World Association of Home Army Soldiers (ŚZŻAK). In September 2020, Stadnik was named acting President of the Ś
Hanna Stadnik (23 February 1929 – 1 December 2020) was a Polish social worker, women's rights activist, and veteran of the Polish resistance movement in World War II. In 1944, at the age of 15-years old, Stadnik participated in the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi German occupation. She was imprisoned by German authorities for the duration of the war, but later received numerous awards and recognitions for her role in the uprising.
Stadnik later served as a longtime Vice President of the World Association of Home Army Soldiers (ŚZŻAK). In September 2020, Stadnik was named acting President of the ŚZŻAK, a position she held until her death on 1 December 2020.
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Biography Stadnik was born on 23 February 1929, in Warsaw, Poland. Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Poland, including Warsaw, in 1939. In 1942, Stadnik began working for the Polish underground when she was 13-years old. She received medical training and smuggled documents and weapons across Warsaw from 1942 to 1944. Hanna Stadnik was just 15-years old at the onset of the Warsaw Uprising, a major revolt led by the Home Army and the Polish resistance to free the city from German occupation, on 1 August 1944. Stadnik joined the Uprising beginning on the first day of the revolt as a member of the Home Army's "Baszta" regiment under the nickname "Hanka". She served as a paramedic, liaison, and weapons smuggler during the fighting, mainly in the city's Mokotów district. Stadnik and her colleagues were eventually forced to surrender. She was imprisoned in German camps at Dulag 121 and Skierniewice. Following the end of World War II and her release from German imprisonment, Hanna Stadnik completed high school and enrolled at the University of Warsaw. However, she was forced to leave the university after two years for concealing her past membership in Home Army and the Warsaw Uprising by Poland's new…
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Awards and recognitions
Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2015) - Awarded by German President Joachim Gauck
Cross of Independence (2013) - Awarded by Polish President Bronisław Komorowski
