Aleksandra Dąmbska 1902-1988

Education:

Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov, Faculty of Philosophy
The Warsaw Nursing School – Course No VII – 1926

In the years 1926-1939 she worked in an anti-tuberculosis clinic of the Association of Fight against Tuberculosis in Lvov. In August 1939 she was mobilized to a medical train as a senior nurse, she cared for injured soldiers transported from Śląsk region do hospitals on Cracow – Lvov route. In the years 1939-1941 back in the anti-tuberculosis clinic, since February 1945 on behalf of the Central Welfare Council. Member of the Union of Active Struggle and the Home Army, she was hiding former Polish officers, run a central medical storehouse for the HA, and supplied food, underwear, and messages to prison. In February 1945 she run away before arrestment by NKVD (and changed name – Rudecka).
After the war she worked a dozen of years as a manager of nursing education in a nursing school in Gdańsk, then for 20 years in church nursing in Cracow. At the end of her life she organized telephone help for the patients staying permanently at home.

Awards:

• The Silver Cross of Merit (twice)
• The Home Army Cross
• The Model Work in Health Care Distinction
• The Polish Nurses’ Association Honorary Badge
• The Order of Polonia Restituta – the Knight’s Cross (she did not accepted it)

Source: Pochylone nad człowiekiem. Warszawa 1993, vol. 2, p. 388.

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