Henryka Bartnicka-Tajchert

Henryka Bartnicka-Tajchert (born January 19, 1922 in Włodawa ; † May 26, 1997 there ) was a Polish girl scout , resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and a dentist .

Life

Henryka Bartnicka attended elementary school in her hometown and then graduated from Kovel Commercial School from 1936 to 1937 . From 1937 she attended the Włodawa grammar school . In 1939, in the first year of World War II , she worked for the insurance company " Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń Wzajemnych " in Włodawa. During this time she contacted the illegal scout association Szare Szeregi in Włodawa, which was headed by Piotr Kołodziejek. This boy scout department had set itself military tasks, u. a. to observe the movements of the German Wehrmacht . Between April and June 1940 the group was broken up by the Gestapo . Its members have been arrested and some have been tortured . Among them was Henryka, who was imprisoned in the Gestapo prison at Lublin Castle . After a few months, she was transferred to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp on September 23, 1941, where she was given prisoner number 7618. Here she sought contact with the illegal scout association “ Mury ” and joined the group “ Cementy ” that had been formed in the camp . She also took part in the educational efforts of the prisoner organization, which were aimed at better education and character strengthening. She herself acquired high school level knowledge with the help of Wanda Madlerowa (inmate number 6009), a former director of the high school in Biała Podlaska . Her classmates were Krystyna Czyż, Janina Iwańska, Jolanta Krzyżanowska, Janina Marciniak, Janina Marczewska, Lala Siwecka-Betty and Halina Żaba.

1945-1997

On February 28, 1945 she was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she arrived on March 2. After the camp was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945 , the surviving prisoners were brought to Sweden by the International Committee of the Red Cross on July 8, 1945 , where they were distributed to various hospitals for convalescence . Those suffering from typhus came to the Malmö hospital . After Henryka was released as cured on August 2nd, she was taken in by the Jurgensen couple who lived in Falsterbo in the southern part of Sweden. In November 1945 she returned to her Polish hometown of Włodawa, where she graduated from high school on June 15, 1946. They then settled in Warsaw for a degree in dentistry enroll . Here she graduated as a dentist in 1950 . From 1951 to 1956 she worked as a dentist in the city of Ełk . In 1956 she returned to Włodawa, where she practiced until she retired in 1980.

Henryka Bartnicka-Tajchert had been married to Jan Tajchert since August 8, 1948, who had fought in the underground army Armia Krajowa during the war . She is the recipient of the Order of Polonia Restituta .

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