Brooklyn, N.Y. … In August 1944, Jadwiga Chrusciel was in Poland and was a member of the Polish Girl Scouts (Harcerze). Her country had been invaded in 1939 and remained under German occupation ever since. Ms. Chrusciel is shown here as guest of honor at the annual post-Christmas party (Oplatek) of the Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American Congress at Brooklyn’s Polonaise Terrace on January 9th.
In August, 1944, Poland’s civilian resistance organization (Armia Krajowia) launched what came to be known as The Warsaw Uprising (The Rising) against the German Army that held the city of Warsaw captive for five long and cruel years.