Urszula Plenkiewicz (née Głowacka; 15 June 1921 – 24 January 2021) was a Polish scout and liaison officer of the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the ZWZ-AK Main Command.
Plenkiewicz was apprehended by the Gestapo in November 1942 and deported to the female wing of the Auschwitz concentration camp known as Birkenau, where she escaped the death march in January 1945.
[2] She participated in minor sabotage actions in Wawer,[3][2] held conspiratorial meetings in her apartment,[1] before going on to join the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the ZWZ-AK Main Command, where she became a liaison officer.
Fearing the approaching Red Army, the Germans evacuated the camp in January 1945 and ordered a Death march as Plenkiewicz escaped from Auschwitz with a friend to the town of Oświęcim.
[3] Plenkiewicz was a Roman Catholic;[4] she died on 24 January 2021 and was buried at the Holy Family Cemetery [pl] in Wrocław following her funeral that took place on 1 February.