Danuta Siedzikówna Danuta Siedzikówna ( nom de guerre : " Inka " ; underground name : " Danuta Obuchowicz " ; born September 3 , 1928 , Guszczewina – died August 28 , 1946 , Gdansk ) was a medical orderly in the 4th Squadron ( created in the Białystok area ) of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Polish Home Army . In 1946 she served with the Brigade ' s 1st Squadron in Poland ' s Pomorze ( Pomerania ) region . Early life . Siedzikówna was born on 3 September 1928 in the village of Guszczewina , near Narewka , in the Bielsk Podlaski district . Her father , Wacław Siedzik was a forester who had been sent to Siberia under the Tsar for being involved in pro - Polish independence organizations . He came back to Poland in 1923 . In 1940 he was arrested by the NKVD and once again deported to Russia . In 1941 he joined Władysław Anders ' Polish Army ( died in Teheran in 1942 ) . Her mother , Eugenia , " née " Tymińskia Prus III coat of arms , was a member of the Home Army and was killed by the Gestapo in September 1943 . Danuta Siedzikówna grew up with her siblings , Wiesława ( 1927 – 2004 ) and Irena ( 1931 ? - 1978 ) , in the forester ' s lodge near Guszczewina ( when were exiled Wacław they moved to Narewka ) , the girls attended grammar school in Narewka until 1939 . During the Second World War , until 1943 all three girls studied in the Salesian Sisters School in Różanystok near Dąbrowa Białostocka . Second World War and thereafter . After their mother was murdered by the Gestapo in Białystok , together with her sister Wiesława , Danuta joined the Home Army in late 1943 or early 1944 . As part of the underground army ' s training she acquired medical skills . After the Soviets took Białystok from the German Nazis , she started work as a clerk in the forest inspectorate in Hajnówka . Together with other employees of the inspectorate she was arrested in June 1945 by NKWD and UB for collaboration with the anticommunist underground . She was liberated from a prison transport convoy by a patrol of a Wilno group of ex - Home Army partisans commanded by Stanisław Wołonciej " Konus " , a subordinate of Zygmunt Szendzielarz , " Łupaszko " , who were operating in the area . " Konus " took the freed prisoners to " Łupaszko " ' s camp where some of them , including Danuta , joined his group . Subsequently Siedzikówna served as a medical orderly in the " Konus " troop , and then in the squadron of lieutenant Jan Mazur , " Piast " , and that of lieutenant Marian Płuciński , " Mścisław " . For a short period of time her superior was also lieutenant Leon Beynar " Nowina " , deputy of " Łupaszko " , later known as " Paweł Jasienica " - a notable Polish historian and writer . During this time Danuta assumed pseudonym " Inka " . The " Łupaszko " brigade was dissolved in September 1945 and Danuta went back to work in the forest inspectorate in Miłomłyn in Ostróda County under the name " Danuta Obuchowicz " . However , the brigade was re - mobilized in response to Communist repressions in January 1946 . In the early spring of 1946 Danuta came into contact with second lieutenant Zdzisław Badocha " Żelazny " , the commander of one of Łupaszko ' s squadrons . Afer " Żelazny " ' s death , the new commander , second lieutenant Olgierd Christa " Leszek " , ordered Danuta to travel to Gdańsk in order to collect medical supplies . She was arrested by the UB again on 20 July 1946 , in Gdańsk . While in prison she was tortured and beaten but refused to give up any information about her contacts in the anti - communist underground and their meeting points . Danuta ' s brutal interrogations were personally supervised by the Head of the Investigations Department at the Voivodeship Office for Public Security , ( WUBP ) , ( Polish Secret Police ) in Gdańsk , , vel Jozef Gawerski , vel Jozef Bukar . In 1968 , Bik , vel Bukar emigrated to Sweden . An IPN indictment against Bik , vel Gawerski , vel Bukar reads : " Jozef B . is accused of participating in court - sanctioned murders perpetrated against members of Polish Democratic Forces ( pol . Polskie Siły Demokratyczne ) and Polish Secret Army ( pol . Polska Armia Tajna ) whom he was beating and torturing in order to extract confessions ” . Trial and death . She was charged with taking an active , violent part in an attack on functionaries of the Communist UB ( Polish secret police ) and the Milicja Obywatelska near village Podjazy as part of the Łupaszko unit , despite the fact that she was only a medic . She was accused of shooting at the policemen and even issuing orders to other partisans . However , the testimony submitted by MO and UB members involved in the fight was at best contradictory , as some claimed to have seen her shooting and giving orders , while other denied it altogether . One ( Mieczysław Mazur ) even testified that Danuta gave him first aid after he was wounded by other partisans . She was also charged with killing wounded policemen , which was also contradicted during her trial . Given such conflicting testimony and the absurdity of the charges , even the Stalinist court decided that she did not take a direct part in the attack . Despite these findings , and ignoring Danuta ' s young age ( she was only seventeen at the time ) , the court still sentenced her to death . The president of People ' s Republic of Poland , Boleslaw Bierut refused to grant her clemency ( the request was submitted by Danuta ' s public defender , and she herself refused to sign it ) . Danuta Siedzikówna was executed ( along with Feliks Selmanowicz nom de guerre " Zagończyk " ) , six days before her 18th birthday , on 28 August 1946 , in a Gdańsk prison . The last minutes of her life are known from the testimony of Marian Prusak , the priest who was called to give " Inka " and " Zagończyk " last rites . According to Prusak both prisoners were calm before their execution . Siedzikówna , after taking the Sacrament of Penance , asked Prusak to inform her family of her death and gave him their address . Afterward the two were executed in the basement of the prison , tied to wooden stakes . They both refused blindfolds . When the prosecutor gave the order for the execution squad to fire , both simultaneously shouted " Long Live Poland ! " Danuta was still alive however , and the coup de grace was delivered by the present prosecutor , Franciszek Sawicki ( the members of the firing squad refused to do so ) . Danuta ' s Protocol of Execution was signed by : Major Wiktor Suchacki , ( Prosecutor ) , Firing Squad Leader , 2nd Lt . Franciszek Sawicki , Attending Physician , Captain Mieczysław Rutkowski , and Jail Warden Jan Wójcik . Later events . Marian Prusak did deliver the news of Danuta ' s death to her family , although they had already found out through other sources . Unbeknown to him he was under UB surveillance , and in 1949 he was charged with " espionage " for informing Danuta ' s family about her murder . For doing just that , he spent three and a half years in Communist prison . After the fall of communism in Poland , the main Stalinist prosecutor in Danuta ' s trial who demanded the death penalty , Wacław Krzyżanowski , was brought up on charges of judicial murder twice ( in 1993 and 2001 ) . However , both times he was declared innocent of the charges ( Krzyżanowski argued that he was only marginally involved with the case ) . Awards . On Independence Day 11 November 2006 , Polish President Lech Kaczyński posthumously awarded Danuta Siedzikówna the Knight ' s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta . Film . In January 2007 , a movie about Danuta Siedzikówna last days , " Inka 1946 . Ja jedna zginę " , featuring actress Karolina Kominek - Skuratowicz in the title role and Natalia Korynckia - Gruz as a producer , was released by Teleplay .