Warsaw Uprising fighter Wanda Traczyk-Stawska: "We fought side by side and went to the camps together"

Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, a courier and riflewoman in the Warsaw Uprising who used the codename Pączek, recalls women's roles in the uprising and their fear of what captivity might bring. She stresses that women earned equal treatment by fighting alongside men and being taken as prisoners of war to the same camps. The interview was originally published in 2024.

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