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Nun Worked as Nurse Connected to Warsaw Uprising 1944 - Very interesting set of 3 identity cards issued to a Polish sister that worked as nurse in the famous hospital of St. Stanislau, that was directly connected to the Warsaw Uprising and Ghetto Uprising.Documents included, all in good condition are:1. Generalgouvernement / Generalne Gubernatorstwo / Kennkarte / Karta Rozpoznawcza, Kennumer / Identification number 182773, Kennort / Place of exhibition Warschau (Warsaw). With photo of the noon and with the Nazi stamp cut out.2. Ausweis (identity card), issued by: Gesundheitskammer im Generalgouvernement Krakau (Chamber of Health, General Governorate of Krakow) regarding the position in the profession: Krankenpflegerin / Nurse. With photo of the noon.3. Ausweis (identity card), issued on 21 Dez. (October) 1944, for barmh. - Schwester (sister of mercy) Domowicz Helena, Beruf (profession): Nonnschwester (sister) - Seuchenkrankenhaus St. Stanislaus Litzmannstadtstrasse (Wolska) 37 Warschau (Infectious Hospital St. Stanislaus in Warsaw Łódzka Street (formerly Wolska Street) 37 Warsaw). With photo of the noon.Important references about the hospital during the war:In 1939 there were 600 beds in the hospital, and the director was Roman Ignacy Szpikowski. In the first days of the siege of Warsaw, the Reception Room building was demolished, in the rubble of which the doctor on duty Dr Janina Dalikowska and the nurse nun Sister Wójcik died. The director of the hospital, Dr. Szpikowski and assistant doctor Józef Pakulska, were covered with rubble. After the end of hostilities, all the personnel merged in all forms of the underground struggle with the invader, and the special tasks included: contacts with the Ghetto resistance movement, rescuing Pawiak prisoners condemned to death and protection of the civilian population. The nature of the hospital was used, its location in the vicinity of cemeteries and vegetable gardens. The group of organizers of the movement: doctor Szpikowski - hospital director and employees of Henryk Iwański, Paweł Kowalski, Stanisław Sokolnicki, Jan Skoczek, Zdzisław Nosarzewski, Marian Kowalski, joined all doctors, hospital chaplain, priest. Władysław Smyrski, nurses with head nurse, Helena Berne, and manual workers: Pludowski, Piekarzewski, Iwański, Senderski, Kruszewski, Kania, Motyliński, Dyjakowski, Paradowski, Jurczyński, Jagodziński, Mikołajko, Deliskek, Piskorowski, Bawarski, Ogrodowski, Mikulski, Wysocka , Bujakowska, Lichota, Filipiński, Gregorkiewicz, Zacharski, Lewandowski. The commander of the group was Capt. Henryk Iwański, and deputies Paweł Kowalski and Jan Skoczek. The Infectious Disease Group issued various types of false certificates, kept people at risk and Jews, purchased, stored and distributed ammunition and weapons, produced pomegranates, filipinki( type of grenade), radio listened and distributed newsletters, conducted combat training and thrown threatened to the east. the most important actions included:• Digging hidden by the Polish Army in the St. Lazarus defends and transports her in trolleys to rubbish to the premises of the Infectious Hospital• Transporting weapons from the Infectious Hospital (in the carpet) to the apartment of the director of Dr. Szpikowski• Transport of weapons in oxygen tanks to the Grójecka railway station• Transport of weapons to the Ghetto in cooperation with a group of Jews under the command of Dr. Celmajster - Niemirski• Transfer and concealment of weapons and explosives after the arrest of Jan Skoczek, a member of the hospital group• Contact with representatives of the Jewish hospital, director Goldfarb, doctor Celmajstra-Niemirski and doctor Tomerson, after a conference held in the apartment of director Szpikowski• Delivery to the Ghetto before and during the uprising of food, medicines, weapons, ammunition, transfer of Jews and two Soviet parachutists Kostaniew and Fedor from the Ghetto through the church in Leszno with the help of the parish priest, priest. Godlewski• Leaving the Ghetto, after the fall of the uprising, a thirty-strong fighting group with full weaponry and hiding it in the hospital, and then to the east• Making and issuing false certificates and work documents• Collecting and transferring infected material to prisoners to the Pawiak to enable them to get to the Infectious Hospital• Issuing a certain corpse to German authorities instead of a Weinclowa prisoner sentenced to death, and sent from the Pawiak, by implanting her infectious disease• Enabling the escape from the ”care” of the navy police of 4 Pawiak prisoners staying on observation in the hospital• Participation in the Warsaw Uprising in the Chrobry Group.During the occupation, a lab technician Józef Ogrodowski died in the execution of the street, and one of the most active from the hospital group host Jan Skoczek, arrested in Grójec, was shot by the Gestapo.Dr Tadeusz Mockałło,