Anna Smoleńska

Anna Smoleńska (Polish pronunciation: [anna smɔlɛɲska]; February 28, 1920 in Warsaw – March 19, 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau),[1] pseudonym Hania, was a Polish student of art history at the University of Warsaw,[2] author of the symbol of Fighting Poland during World War II and girl scout of the Gray Ranks.

[6] The Smoleński family lived in the so-called House of Professors, which is part of the University of Technology's building complex at Koszykowa street 75.

[8] During the German occupation, she studied at the Municipal Horticultural and Agricultural School at Opaczewska Street in Warsaw,[9] where secret education was conducted in Polish.

[13] In 1942 she won the competition of the Bureau of Information and Propaganda for the sign of the Polish Underground State - anchor project - the symbol of Fighting Poland.

[16] The Germans tried to arrest the editor-in-chief of the Biuletyn Informacyjny Aleksander Kamiński and the editorial secretary Maria Straszewska, but failed.

Anna Smoleńska as a prisoner of Auschwitz , in 1942
A memorial plaque at the House of Professors of the Warsaw University of Technology at Koszykowa Street 75, where Anna Smoleńska lived together with her family.
Kotwica symbol of the Polish Underground State and Home Army, on the Monument to the Polish Underground State and Home Army
Symbol of Fighting Poland during World War II on the Warsaw Uprising Museum