Hanna Stadnik

[2] Hanna Stadnik was just 15-years old at the onset of the Warsaw Uprising, a major revolt led by the Home Army and the Polish resistance to free the city from German occupation, on 1 August 1944.

[1][2] Following the end of World War II and her release from German imprisonment, Hanna Stadnik completed high school and enrolled at the University of Warsaw.

[1][2] However, she was forced to leave the university after two years for concealing her past membership in Home Army and the Warsaw Uprising by Poland's new communist dictatorship.

[1] In 2016, Stadnik and her colleagues, including psychologist Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, became vocal public supporters of the nationwide All-Poland Women's Strike.

[3] Most recently, Stadnik took part in the October–December 2020 Polish protests, less than one month before her death, in response to a Constitutional Tribunal ruling which restricted abortion in Poland.