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About Wanda Lesisz
- Wanda Lesisz (15 July 1926 – 16 July 2017) was a Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War who was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for hiding Jews from the Nazis.
- She married Tadeusz Lesisz.
- Resistance fighter, she was a young girl from a known as blank Warsaw Poland.
- Her father worked for the Polish Army while she and her sisters attended a military school taught by a minister until the age of 15 when she began attending a school run by the wife of the minister.
- This changed when her father sent her family out of their small town. German forces were advancing through pressure which meant Wanda and her family had to make their Journey on an alternate route.
- Her new home had “ no windows, no glass, and cracked radiators” .
- this became her new life and in such, she got a job as a newspaper distributor.
- This changed when she was asked to join the underground.
- The underground tightened her family unit due to her sisters and mother also working for the underground.
- Wanda's main job was distributing messages but also weapons to other members of the group.
- She also assisted an English Jumper who lived with them for a short amount of time but was later apprehended and killed.
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