Lidia Lwow-Eberle

Lidia Lwow-Eberle nom de guerre "Ewa" (14 November 1920 – 5 January 2021) was a Russian born Polish patriot and paramedic. She was arrested by the communist authorities and she was imprisoned "for life". She later married and became an archaeologist.

Life Lwow-Eberle was born in the Russian town of Plyos in 1920. Her parents were Barbara (born Tuganove) and Leon Lvov.

They were both arrested on 30 June 1948 by the communist authorities. She was in Osielec, when she was arrested and the others arrested included and his wife , Captain Henryk Borowski and Lt. Col. Antoni Olechnowicz. She was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1950 and Major Szendzielarz was sentenced to death. He was executed on 9 February 1951 in Mokotów Prison.

She and Wanda Czarnecka-Minkiewicz were released in 1956 and she set out on a new career as an archaeologist. She married a historian Jan Eberle in 1961 and she graduated in archaeology in 1962. She worked at the Museum of Warsaw taking credit for setting up the Museum of the Guild of Leather-based Crafts.

In 2013 it was announced that the authorities had discovered unmarked graves in "Meadows in Powązki" in Warsaw. Amongst them was her post war partner who was identified using DNA comparisons with his close relatives.

Lwow-Eberle died in Warsaw aged 100 years old on 5 January 2021. Her military funeral was in Warsaw on 22 January at the Powązki Military Cemetery.