Róża Maria Goździewska

Róża Maria Goździewska (; also known as Różyczka Goździewska, Różyczka being a diminutive of her first name, lit. "Little Rose"; 31 March 1936 – 29 October 1989) was a Polish nurse, known as the youngest nurse of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising when she was a child.

Biography Goździewska was born on 31 March 1936. Her father was killed by the Gestapo in 1943.

Goździewska, eight years old at that time, was helping in the field hospital at 11 Moniuszki Street in Warsaw. She was described as a nurse because she made the patients smile, brought them water to drink, and tried to clear away the flies. Her relative, Jadwiga Obretenny, 19 years old at the time, was also a nurse in the Uprising.

A photo of Goździewska, wearing a Red Cross armband, was taken in early August 1944 by Eugeniusz Lokajski, nom-de-guerre "Brok", a Home Army resistance fighter and photographer, who would perish a month later. The Uprising, after incurring major casualties among the civilian participants, was eventually crushed by the Germans on 2 October. and even as one of the most famous photos of the Warsaw Uprising.