Helena Pasierbska-Wojtowicz (1921 – 12 March 2010) was a Polish writer. During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

, she joined the Polish resistance organization (first Związek Walki Zbrojnej, later Armia Krajowa) and served as a curier and nurse. Took part in the

Operation Ostra Brama , Second Polish Republic) , coordinates = , result = Failure of the operation , combatant1 = Polish Secret State (Armia Krajowa) , combatant2 = , combatant3 = , commander1 = Aleksander KrzyżanowskiAntoni Olechnowicz , comman ...

. After the war, she became a teacher and also researched the

Ponary massacre , location = Paneriai (Ponary), Vilnius (Wilno), Reichskommissariat Ostland , coordinates = , date = July 1941 – August 1944 , incident_type = Shootings by automatic and semi-automatic weapons, genocide , perpetrators ...

. She published several books and articles. In 1975, she was decorated with

Armia Krajowa Cross The Cross of the Home Army ( pl, Krzyż Armii Krajowej) is a Polish military decoration that was introduced by General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski on 1 August 1966 to commemorate the efforts of the soldiers of the Polish Secret State between 1939 and ...

and in 2004, she received the Polonia Mater Nostra Est award. She was also an honorary member of Polish Association in Lithuania (Związek Polaków na Litwie) and a leader of "Ponary Families" Association (Stowarzyszenie „Rodzina Ponarska”).

Works

* various articles, mostly in ''

Nasz Dziennik ''Nasz Dziennik'' ("Our Daily") is a Polish-language Roman Catholic daily newspaper published six times a week in Warsaw, Poland. It is connected to the Lux Veritatis Foundation. Its viewpoint has been described as right-wing to far-right (har ...

'' *''Ponary. Wileńska golgota'', Sopot, 1993 *''Wileńskie Łukiszki na tle wydarzeń lat wojny 1939-1944'', 2003, self-published, *''Ponary i inne miejsca męczeństwa Polaków z Wileńszczyzny w latach 1941-1944'' (Ponary and other places of martyrdom of Poles in Vilnius Region in the years 1941-1944), Łowicz, 2005. *''Ponary. Największe miejsce kaźni koło Wilna (1941-1944)'', Zarząd Ochrony i Konserwacji Zespołów Pałacowo-Ogrodowych, Warszawa, 1993,

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1921 births 2010 deaths Polish women writers Writers from Vilnius 20th-century Polish writers Home Army members Recipients of the Armia Krajowa Cross 20th-century women writers Polish nurses 20th-century Polish women {{Poland-writer-stub