Irena Bobowska

Though paralyzed from the waist down by childhood illness she participated in the resistance to the German occupation of Poland, before capture and execution at the age of 22.

They were interned in Fort VII, from where Bobowska was transported to Wronki prison and finally to Moabit in Berlin.

Throughout her imprisonment German officers subjected her to physical and mental torture, including the removal of her wheelchair, leaving her to crawl on the floor of her damp, vermin-infested cell.

Bobowska's legacy includes the poems she wrote and pictures she drew while in prison, depicting the inner struggle to retain dignity when faced with inhuman conditions.

Today she is a patron of a Kraków Girl Scouts troop, the 344 Krakowska Drużyna Harcerek Altowianie.