Inka

Danuta Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: "Inka"; underground name: Danuta Obuchowicz; 1928–1946) was a medical orderly in the 4th Squadron (created in the Białystok area) of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Polish Home Army. In 1946 she served with the Brigade's 1st Squadron in Poland's Pomerania region.

Her father, Wacław Siedzik, was a forester who had been sent to Siberia under the Tsar for being involved in pro-Polish independence organizations. He came back to Poland in 1923. In 1940 he was arrested by the NKVD and once again deported to Russia. In 1941 he joined Władysław Anders' Polish Army (died in Teheran in 1942). Her mother, Eugenia, née Tymińskia Prus III coat of arms, was a member of the Home Army and was killed by the Gestapo in September 1943.

Siedzikówna grew up with her siblings, Wiesława (1927–2004) and Irena (1932–1978) under them grandma care. Danuta joined the Home Army in late 1943 or early 1944. As part of the underground army's training she acquired medical skills. After the Soviets took Białystok from the German Nazis, she started work as a clerk in the forest inspectorate in Hajnówka. Together with other employees of the inspectorate she was arrested in June 1945 by NKVD and UB for collaboration with the anticommunist underground. She was liberated from a prison transport convoy by a patrol of a Wilno group of ex-Home Army partisans commanded by Stanisław Wołonciej "Konus", a subordinate of Zygmunt Szendzielarz, "Łupaszko", who were operating in the area. The "Łupaszko" brigade was dissolved in September 1945 and Danuta went back to work in the forest inspectorate in Miłomłyn in Ostróda County under the name "Danuta Obuchowicz". However, the brigade was re-mobilized in response to Communist repressions in January 1946. In the early spring of 1946 Danuta came into contact with second lieutenant Zdzisław Badocha "Żelazny", the commander of one of Łupaszko's squadrons. Afer "Żelazny"'s death in the mid of 1946, the new commander, second lieutenant Olgierd Christa "Leszek", ordered Danuta to travel to Gdańsk in order to collect medical supplies. She was arrested by the UB again on 20 July 1946 in Gdańsk.

While in prison she was tortured and beaten but refused to give up any information about her contacts in the anti-communist underground and their meeting points. Danuta's brutal interrogations were personally supervised by the Head of the Investigations Department at the Voivodeship Office for Public Security, (WUBP; Polish Secret Police) in Gdańsk, Józef Bik. She was charged with taking an active, violent part in an attack on functionaries of the Communist UB (Polish secret police) and the Milicja Obywatelska near village Podjazy as part of the Łupaszko unit, despite the fact that she was only a medic. She was accused of shooting at policemen and even issuing orders to other partisans. However, the testimony submitted by MO and UB members involved in the fight was at best contradictory, as some claimed to have seen her shooting and giving orders, while other denied it altogether. One, named Mieczysław Mazur, testified that Siedzikówna had given him first aid after he was wounded by other partisans. The court sentenced her to death at age of 17. Siedzikówna was executed (along with Feliks Selmanowicz, whose nom de guerre was "Zagończyk") on 28 August 1946, in a Gdańsk prison. Her last words shouted just before death were: "Long live Poland!" and "Long live Łupaszko!"

The communist propaganda named her "bloody bandit” until 1989. After the fall of communism, Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) twice time brought to justice the main Stalinist prosecutor in Danuta's trial who demanded the death penalty, Wacław Krzyżanowski. However, both times he was declared innocent of the charges.

On Polish Independence Day, 11 November 2006, President Lech Kaczyński posthumously awarded Danuta Siedzikówna the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. On 1 March 2015 Institute of National Remembrance officially announced finding her place of burial in Gdansk's garrison cemetery.