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Barbara Warda, also known as Barbara Wardzianka, codenamed Stara (born 24 May 1912 in Warsaw, died 27 February 1999 in Warsaw), was a Polish nurse and physician. For most of her professional career, she was associated with the Wola Hospital in Warsaw. Warda served as a soldier in the Home Army and participated in the Warsaw Uprising.
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Barbara Warda, also known as Barbara Wardzianka, codenamed Stara (born 24 May 1912 in Warsaw, died 27 February 1999 in Warsaw), was a Polish nurse and physician. For most of her professional career, she was associated with the Wola Hospital in Warsaw. Warda served as a soldier in the Home Army and participated in the Warsaw Uprising.
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Youth and education Barbara Warda was born on 24 May 1912 in Warsaw, to Wincenty Warda and Malwina Mackiewicz. During her childhood and adolescence, she lived with her parents in Kutno. In 1931, she graduated from the Tadeusz Kościuszko Gymnasium in Gostynin. From 1936, she studied at the Warsaw School of Nursing, earning her diploma in 1939. She planned to work in Zakopane, where her family lived after finishing her studies. However, in the spring of 1939, Dr. Józef Marian Piasecki, the director of Wola Hospital, requested the school to recommend two of the best graduates from the class of 1939 for employment at his facility. Barbara Warda was one of those recommended. She started working at Wola Hospital on 1 April 1939 as a scrub nurse and head of the operating room.
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Underground activities In September 1939, she remained in besieged Warsaw. Along with other staff members from Wola Hospital, she provided assistance to injured soldiers and civilian victims of German air raids and artillery fire. During the occupation, she became involved in underground activities within the sanitary services of the Home Army. She adopted the codename Stara. She trained medics in secret courses organized at Wola Hospital. She participated in the operation to free Stanisław Miedza-Tomaszewski, who was transferred from Pawiak prison to Wola Hospital, where his death was faked during a supposed operation. In February 1944, when heavily wounded Bronisław Pietraszewicz, codenamed Lot, the commander of Operation Kutschera, was brought to Wola Hospital, she was one of the medical staff involved in the unsuccessful attempt to save his life. In 1943, she began her medical studies at the underground University of the Western Lands.
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Warsaw Uprising On 1 August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising began. Five days later, German SS and Ordnungspolizei units led by SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth commenced the extermination of the residents of Wola. They stormed Wola Hospital, murdering its director, Dr. Piasecki, Professor Janusz Zeyland, and the hospital chaplain, Father Kazimierz Ciecierski. The remaining Poles were driven from the building and forced towards the railway workshops on Moczydło Street. At one point, surgeons Leon Manteuffel-Szoege and Stefan Wesołowski, as well as nurses Barbara Warda and Irena Dobrzańska, were taken from the column. The latter were directed to work at a German sanitary point on 53 Górczewska Street. On 6 August, the German sanitary point, along with both Polish nurses, was moved to the Wola Hospital building. Meanwhile, Dr. Zbigniew Woźniewski, one of the few doctors who survived the massacre the day before, managed, with the help of several surviving staff members and personnel brought from the burned Karol and Maria Children's Hospital, to resume operations at Wola Hospital. Initially, they provided care to patients who had not been expelled from the hospital by the Germans and treated survivors of the Wola massacre. Later, they also began to assist civilians who were being…
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Post-war fate On 18 January 1945, upon hearing news of the Soviet offensive and the German retreat from Warsaw, she set out on foot with a group of Wola Hospital staff toward the ruined capital. They arrived the next day. After the war, she continued working at Wola Hospital. Dr. Janina Misiewicz offered her the position of head nurse, but Warda decided to pursue the medical studies she had begun during the occupation, while also working as a surgical assistant at the hospital. In 1950, she earned her medical degree from the Medical Faculty of the University of Warsaw. After completing her studies, she continued working at Wola Hospital – first as an assistant, and from 1957 as a senior assistant specializing in surgery and anesthesiology. Additionally, in 1953, she spent nine months working as an anesthesiologist at a Red Cross hospital in North Korea. From 1960 to 1962, she worked at the Bielany Hospital as head of the operating block. She then worked at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology. In 1973, she retired, but continued working until 1992 at an emergency medical center on Hoża Street in Warsaw. She was a member of several organizations, including…
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Orders and decorations She was awarded the following orders and decorations: Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (28 January 1954) Medal For Participation in the Defensive War of 1939
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Cross of the Home Army Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (13 January 1955) Gold Honorary Badge of the Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society Silver Honorary Badge For Merits to Warsaw Commemorative Medal Four Centuries of Warsaw as the Capital She also received a North Korean decoration.
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Bibliography Geber, Halina; Halweg, Halina (2004). Szpital Dobrej Woli. Szpital Wolski 1939–1945 [Hospital of Good Will: Wola Hospital 1939–1945] (in Polish). Czytelnik Publishing House. ISBN 83-07-02980-5. Kopf, Stanisław (2004). Powstańcze służby sanitarne [Insurgent Sanitary Services] (in Polish). Warsaw: Warszawa Walczy 1939–1945. ISBN 83-11-09806-9.