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Hanka Sawicka, real name Hanna Krystyna Szapiro, pseudonym Hanka (19 December 1917 – 18 March 1943) was a Polish communist of Jewish background active in the Polish underground, represented in Polish People's Republic propaganda as the first leader of the Union of Youth Struggle.
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Hanka Sawicka, real name Hanna Krystyna Szapiro, pseudonym Hanka (19 December 1917 – 18 March 1943) was a Polish communist of Jewish background active in the Polish underground, represented in Polish People's Republic propaganda as the first leader of the Union of Youth Struggle.
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Her parents were Maria and Bernard Szapiro. Her father was a member of PPS Lewica, a socialist party, as well as an uncle of the writer Stefan Kisielewski. In 1931 they moved to Warsaw, where Hanna finished school and studied law. In 1935 she became an activist of the Związek Niezależnej Młodzieży Socjalistycznej „Życie” (Union of Independent Socialist Youth). In the first days of the Nazi occupation, Sawicka organised help for political prisoners and published the first underground publication entitled Wolność (Freedom). In the underground resistance, Sawicka was first involved with the youth group Spartakus, which had been organised before the war by socialists. In 1940, this group was dissolved due to ideological conflict and irreconcilable differences on the issue of fighting against Hitler while Stalin was collaborating with him. Sawicka was the co-leader of the communist publications Biuletyn Radiowy (Radio Biuletin), which from June 1941 printed communiques of Stalinist propaganda taken from Moscow radios. In addition, she provided aid for those in the ghettos, which she and her father managed to avoid and initiated a Committee for Aid for Victims of Fascism. In February 1943, she became the editor and writer of a new communist conspiratorial paper, Walka Młodych…
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Commemoration During the Communist period, she was the patron of many streets across Poland, many of which have since been renamed. These include Kielce, where her street is now named for Józef Piłskudski; Tarnobrzeg, now named for the Dominicans; Tarnów, now named for St. Anna; Rzeszów, now named for St. Nicholas; Kluczbork, now named for the Jagiellonian dynasty; Kalisz, now named for Stefan Wyszyński; Olsztyn, now named for Wrocław. There were also streets named for her in Biała Podlaska, Gliwice, Gdańsk, Piotrków Trybunalski, Świdnica, Sopot, Dusznice-Zdrój, Białogard, Dzierżoniów, Kościan, Bytom, Koszalin, Jaworzno, Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Sochaczew, Buków, Polkowice, Witaszyce, Darłowo, Kępno, Świętochłowice, Łęknica, Biskupiec, Włodawo, Wałbrzych, Rzepin, Siemianowice Słąskie, Dźwirzyno, Zawierciel, Warsaw, Żyrardów, Bielsko Podlaskie, Starachowice, Łobez, and Łódź.