Marta Baranowska

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Marta Baranowska (born November 29, 1903 in Bydgoszcz ; † January 7, 2009 there ) was a Polish social worker , resistance fighter against National Socialism and prisoner in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Life

Baranowska headed the illegal scout organization “ Mury ” in Bydgoszcz . When she was admitted to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp on August 10, 1941, she was given prisoner number 6738. She was soon appointed as block elder of the Polish women in Block 1. In this function she was particularly keen to look after and support Polish children. The women procured bread and warm soup for the children and also procured warm clothing for them until these relief operations were properly planned and organized through Marta's initiative. At this point she was the block elder of the kitchen block. Together with other Polish inmate women, she organized Christmas parties for up to 100 children several times during her stay in the camp.

After the liberation from the Nazi tyranny , she returned to her homeland, corresponded for many years with former fellow sufferers and made her memories available for the historical and political reappraisal of the anti-fascist resistance.

Literature and media

  • Video interview by Loretta Walz with Marta Baranowska . See SAPMO-BArch, Sg Y 1740
  • Karolina Lanckorońska: Courage is innate. Memories of the war 1939–1945. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2003, ISBN 3-205-77086-2 .
  • Sigrid Jacobeit, Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich: Way of the Cross Ravensbrück. Life pictures of anti-fascist resistance fighters. Röderberg 1987, ISBN 3-87682-834-1 .
  • Bernhard Strebel : The Ravensbrück concentration camp. History of a camp complex , with a foreword by Germaine Tillion, at the same time dissertation 2001 at the University of Hanover under the title The camp complex of the Ravensbrück concentration camp , Paderborn; Munich; Vienna; Zurich: Schöningh, 2003, ISBN 3-506-70123-1 ; Table of contents can be downloaded as a PDF document
  • Elisabeth Pregardier, Anne Mohr von Plöger: Letters to Radibor. Maria Grollmuß (1896-1944). ISBN 3-924574-69-3 .
  • Barbara Degen: The heart beats in Ravensbrück - The commemorative culture of women. ISBN 3-86649-288-X .
  • Loretta Walz: And then you come there on a beautiful summer day. The women of Ravensbrück. Kunstmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88897-388-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Astrid von Chamier: The women's concentration camp Ravensbrück: Source situation and source criticism. Free University of Berlin, 1997.
  2. ^ Anne Mohr, Elisabeth Prégardier (ed.): Singing from the furnace: Women's concentration camp Ravensbrück, 1939–1945. autobiographical reports. 1st edition. Plöger, Annweiler 2002, ISBN 3-89857-068-1 . (Witnesses of Contemporary History, Volume 6)
  3. ↑ Claus Füllberg-Stolberg, Martina Jung, Renate Riebe (eds.): Women in concentration camps. Bergen-Belsen. Ravensbrück. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1994, ISBN 3-86108-237-3 .
  4. ^ Gabriele Knapp: Women's Voices. Musicians are reminiscent of Ravensbrück. Metropol, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936411-30-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Baranowska, Marta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish social worker and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bydgoszcz
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2009
Place of death Bydgoszcz