Jadwiga Nowakowski (Zaleska)Teacher
Born Brzesc nad Bugiem, Poland; daughter of Walerian and Monika (Zaleski); married Andrzej Jan Wiktor Wielkopolanin, North London, England 1951; children: Victor, Henry, Monika.
Education: Attended business High School, Kindergarten Teacher's school, Warsaw. Graduated underground teacher's college for teachers preparing to teach in territories to be recovered from Germany after World War II.
Social activity: Kindergarten teacher in Polish Saturday school, Polish parish on Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles and in Whittier.
Military: Polish underground Home Army - Armia Krajowa (A.K.) 1942, trained as nurse; during Warsaw Uprising, 1944, captured and incarcerated in German concentration camps, Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen to end of war; arter liberation, was teacher for Polish children who were recovered from Germans' families. These children were stolen from Polish families in Poland and transported to Germany and given to German mothers to be raised as Germans; schools located in Rolsdorf and Mussen near Lubeck.
Awards: Krzyz Oswiecimski; Krzyz Armii Krajowej; Warszawski Krzyz Powstanczy.
Listed in publication: Tajne Pedagogium Ziem Zachodnich w Warszawie, 1942-44.
Member of: Polish Resistance Forces Veterans Association.
Resident: Monrovia, CA.
From: "Polish Americans in California, Vol. II," National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs & Polish American Historical Association. California 1995.