Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz

Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz (15 December 1886–1968),[1] code name "Alinka"[2] or "Alicja", was a leading figure in Warsaw’s underground resistance movement[3] throughout the years of German occupation during World War II in Poland, co-founder of Żegota.

Early on, Krahelska-Filipowicz used her influence to persuade the Government in Exile, including members of the Delegatura and its military counterpart, the AK, of the importance of setting up a central organization to help Poland's Jews, and to back the policy with significant funding.

[7] A Catholic Socialist activist and a devout Democrat, she was the editor of the Polish art magazine "Arkady".

In the pre-World War I partitioned Poland, on 18 August 1906, at the age of twenty she took part in an assassination attempt on the Russian governor-general of Warsaw, Georgi Skalon.

Afterwards, she fled to Kraków in Austrian part of Poland, entered into fictional marriage with painter Adam Dobrodzicki and became citizen of Austria-Hungary.