Urszula Plenkiewicz

Urszula Plenkiewicz's grave at the Holy Family Cemetery, Wrocław. Urszula Plenkiewicz (; 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. She taught at the covert neighbourhood school and served as a soldier in the Sub-district V of Mokotów of the District of Warsaw Union of Armed Struggle. 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. She was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Cross of the Home Army, and the Auschwitz Cross, as well as being recognised Righteous Among the Nations.

Biography Plenkiewicz was born in Warsaw, Poland on 15 June 1921. She was the daughter of Leokadia Gowacka and Feliks Gowacki, a state police officer who was murdered by the NKVD in Kalinin in 1940, and she had a younger sister.

When Nazi Germany occupied Warsaw in September 1939 and enacted anti-Jewish decrees, she began teaching at the secret Girls' Gymnasium the following month. Kon survived the war.

Awards Plenkiewicz was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on 26 December 1994. She was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Cross of the Home Army and the Auschwitz Cross.