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Youngest nurse of the Warsaw Uprising

Róża Maria Goździewska
Goździewska in 1944
BornRóża Maria Goździewska
(1936-03-31)31 March 1936
Poland
Died29 October 1989(1989-10-29) (aged 53)
Alma materSilesian University of Technology
Known forThe youngest nurse of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
Medical career
ProfessionNurse

Róża Maria Goździewska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈruʐa ˈmarʲja ɡɔʑˈd͡ʑɛfska]; also known as Różyczka Goździewska, Różyczka being a diminutive of her first name, lit. "Little Rose"; 31 March 1936 – 29 October 1989) was a Polish nurse, known as the youngest nurse of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising when she was a child.

Biography

Goździewska was born on 31 March 1936. Her father was killed by the Gestapo in 1943. A year later, on 1 August, the city of Warsaw was engulfed in the uprising against the German occupiers, with the civilian population caught in the middle. A number of child soldiers took part in the fighting on the side of the Polish insurgents.

Goździewska, eight years old at that time, was helping in the field hospital at 11 Moniuszki Street in Warsaw. She was described as a nurse because she made the patients smile, brought them water to drink, and tried to clear away the flies. That field hospital was associated with the Polish insurgents' Home Army Koszta Company [pl] unit. Her relative, Jadwiga Obretenny, 19 years old at the time, was also a nurse in the Uprising.

A photo of Goździewska, wearing a Red Cross armband, was taken in early August 1944 by Eugeniusz Lokajski, nom-de-guerre "Brok", a Home Army resistance fighter and photographer, who would perish a month later. The Uprising, after incurring major casualties among the civilian participants, was eventually crushed by the Germans on 2 October. Goździewska and her sister survived the war. Afterwards, she attended a gymnasium run by the Ursulines, graduated from the Silesian University of Technology, and in 1958, she emigrated to France, where she got married and had two children. She died on 29 October 1989.

Remembrance

In the early 21st century her photo gained recognition, having been used in various materials published by the Warsaw Uprising Museum. Her photo was colorized in the 2010s, and by the late 2010s described as "well known" and even as one of the most famous photos of the Warsaw Uprising.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Róża Maria Goździewska". Fundacja Warszawskie Szpitale Polowe (in Polish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  2. ^ Stańczyk, Ewa (2015). "Heroes, Victims, Role Models: Representing the Child Soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising". Slavic Review. 74 (4): 738–759. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.738. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.738. S2CID 159663213.
  3. ^ Stańczyk, Ewa (2019), Stańczyk, Ewa (ed.), "Moral Panic: The Child Soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising", Commemorating the Children of World War II in Poland: Combative Remembrance, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 77–102, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32262-5_4, ISBN 978-3-030-32262-5, S2CID 210555378, retrieved 10 April 2021
  4. Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego (2009). Powstanie Warszawskie: dzień po dniu [The Warsaw Uprising: day after day]. Axel Springer. p. 13. ISBN 978-83-7558-610-7.
  5. ^ "Najsłynniejsze zdjęcia z powstania. Fotografie – ikony. 5/8 Sanitariuszka Różyczka" [The most famous photos from the uprising. Photographs - icons. 5/8 medical orderly Rose]. Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). August 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  6. "Powstańcze Biogramy – Jadwiga Obretenny" [Insurgent Biographies - Jadwiga Obretenny]. www.1944.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  7. "Dzieci" [Kids]. Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego (in Polish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  8. "Powstanie Warszawskie. Armia medyków '44" [Warsaw Uprising. Army of Medics '44]. pulsmedycyny.pl (in Polish). 1 August 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  9. Jankowska, Ewa (8 March 2017). "Kolorowe zdjęcia z Powstania Warszawskiego. To nie to samo, co czerń i biel. Realizm fotografii poraża" [Color photos from the Warsaw Uprising. It is not the same as black and white. The realism of photography is shocking]. Gazeta.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 10 April 2021.
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