Olimp (organization)

It later included Poles from Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) who were present in the city as forced laborers, as well as those who had escaped from nearby German camps.

[1] Some of the members of the organization included Stanisław Grzesiewski, Rafał Twardzik, Wyderkowscy brothers Jan and Roman, Alojzy Marszałek, Edward Damczyk and Felicyta Podlakówna-Damczyk.

[3] The name of the organization in fact came from the locale - the apartment was located on the fifth floor of the building, and according to memoirs of Felicyta Damczyk, early on someone had commented that "it's far to this place like to Mount Olympus!".

One Olimpian, Stanisław Ruciński, survived until May 1944 because the Gestapo believed him to be in possession of information about other underground units, and as such he was left alive until the conclusion of the investigation.

Maria Wyderkowska lived through Auschwitz, while her brother in law, Jan, managed to escape and joined the anti-Nazi partisans in the Lublin region.

In 2005, the Szczepin Housing Estate Council placed the monument under its care, commissioning cleaning and conservation works to restore it to its former appearance.

At the monument, local patriotic ceremonies are organized every year, commemorating the pre-war German Polish community and the forced workers deported to Germany during the war.

Monument to Olimp group in Wrocław, on the corners of the Zelwerowicza i Sokolnicza street. The inscription states: In the years 1941-1942 in the house on the corners of Sokolnicza and Zelwerowicza street members of the Polish resistance group Olimp gathered in secrecy. Poles from Rodło and Poles with the sign of P were deported for forced labour gave their lives for Polish Wrocław. Friends-your sacrifice was not in vain-Wrocław Polish forever.