WIRTUALNE MUZEUM

Virtual Museum

Wirtualne Muzeum

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    ZIEMIAŃSKA JADWIGA nee BEHONNEK

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    CANADA

    Born: September 27th, 1903

    Died: ?, Canada

    Military Rank: Lance Sergeant

    Military Medals: Polish: Golden Cross of Merit, Independence Medal, Commemorative Monte Cassino Cross; British: War Medal

    Jadwiga Ziemiańska was a soldier in the Second World War that was part of the Polish Auxiliary Territorial Service (also known as the Pomocnicza Służba Kobiet, PSK or “Pestki”), operating in the Land Forces. Women in this organization provided various supportive roles for the war effort such as serving as nurses, cooks, drivers and many other essential roles. Little is known about Ziemiańska but based on her archival documents we know that she worked as a cleark in an Armory no. 5 factory in Przemyśl, Poland around 1925. Around 1942, she ended up in Tehran, Iran as most refugees and former Soviet prisoners did. At that time she joined the Polish 2 Corps under Lt. Gen. Władysław Anders and held the rank of Lance Sergeant – army ID no. 8/Z/1903/IV. As Polish Resettlement Corps’s soldier she was demobilised in Great Britain on 23 January 1948 and ended up in Canada.

    author : Robert Stanczyk

    source : archives of Orliński Museum, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

    Employee ID card of Jadwiga Ziemiańska, Armory no. 5 in Przemyśl (Poland), prewar Poland; source: Jadwiga Ziemiańska collection, Orlinski Museum, Canada
    Polish 2 Corps Soldier’s Book of Jadwiga Ziemiańska; source: Jadwiga Ziemiańska collection, Orlinski Museum, Canada
    Polish Independence Medal; source: Jadwiga Ziemiańska collection, Orlinski Museum, Canada
    Commemorative Monte Cassino Cross; source: Jadwiga Ziemiańska collection, Orlinski Museum, Canada
    Polish 2nd Corps uniform of Jadwiga Ziemiańska; source: Jadwiga Ziemiańska collection, Orlinski Museum, Canada
    British War Medal; source: Jadwiga Ziemiańska collection, Orlinski Museum, Canada
    Golden Cross of Merit; source: Jadwiga Ziemiańska collection, Orlinski Museum,
    Canada

    ABOUT THE PROJECT

    “Polish 2nd Corps Virtual Museum” is a long-term project, initiated in 2021 on the initiative of the World Polonia Council (Rada Polonii Świata) and Mrs. Teresa Berezowska from Canada, implemented in partnership with the Polska360 Foundation from Warsaw, which since 2015 has been implementing a number of projects documenting the fate of the soldiers of the 2nd Corps ( including a project of biographical interviews with soldiers of the 2nd Corps from Poland and Great Britain, 2016-2017, the exhibition “Ruins at the Monte Cassino – the fate of the Kresowiaks – soldiers of the 2nd Corps” – financed by the Office for Veterans and Victims of Oppression; caring for 2 Corps combatants in Poland or permanent cooperation from 2017 with the Association of Former Soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces in the West “Carpathians” from Warsaw). Read more...

    O PROJEKCIE

    “Wirtualne Muzeum 2 Korpusu” jest projektem wieloletnim, zainicjowanym w 2021 r. z inicjatywy Rady Polonii Świata i Pani Teresy Berezowskiej z Kanady, realizowanym w partnerstwie z Fundacją Polska360 z Warszawy, która od 2015 r. realizuje szereg projektów dokumentujących losy żołnierzy 2 Korpusu (m.in. projekt notacji biograficznych z żołnierzami 2 Korpusu z Polski i Wielkiej Brytanii, 2016-2017, wystawa “Gruzy na szczycie – losy Kresowiaków – żołnierzy 2 Korpusu” – ze środków Urzędu do Spraw Kombatantów i Osób Represjonowanych; sprawowanie opieki nad kombatantami 2 Korpusu czy stała współpraca od 2017 r. ze Stowarzyszeniem Byłych Żołnierzy Polskich Sił Zbrojnych na Zachodzie “Karpatczycy” z Warszawy). Czytaj dalej...

    PARTNERZY

    The project is financed by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Republic of Poland as part of the Polonia and Poles Abroad 2022 competition.
    The publication only expresses the views of the author(s) and cannot be equated with the official position of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland.

    Projekt finansowany ze środków Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów w ramach konkursu „Polonia i Polacy za Granicą 2022”.
    Publikacja wyraża jedynie poglądy autora/ów i nie może być utożsamiana z oficjalnym stanowiskiem Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów.

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