Wanda Pełczyńska
Wanda Izabela Pełczyńska was a Polish journalist, educator and politician. She served in the Legislative Sejm for the Second Polish Republic from 1935 to 1938.
The daughter of Józef Filipkowski, a railway engineer, and Zofia Kwiatkowska, she was born Wanda Izabela Filipkowska in Puerto Rico. She took teaching courses in Warsaw and studied Polish at Jagiellonian University.
During World War I, she was a courier in the 1st Brigade, Polish Legions. In 1919, she was head of couriers for the. In 1920, she began teaching at a teacher's college in Warsaw. From 1923 to 1926, she was editor for , from 1927 to 1931, was editor of Kobiety Współczesnej and, from 1927 to 1934, she was co-editor of Młodej Matki.
Pełczyńska served on the board for the Polish section of FIDAC. She was also associated with the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government. During World War II, she was associated with the Union of Armed Struggle in Vilnius. She was arrested by the Soviet authorities in July 1940 and imprisoned in Lukiškės Prison and later in Warsaw. She took care of the wounded during the Warsaw Uprising. After 1945, she lived in exile in London.
In 1923, she married Tadeusz Pełczyński, a general in the Polish army. Her son died in the Warsaw Uprising.
She was awarded the:
She died in London at the age of 82. She was originally buried in London but was later interred in the Powązki Military Cemetery.
