{"id":47545,"date":"2022-05-29T21:08:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T19:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47545"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:17:16","slug":"farewell-to-maria-mirecka-lorys-fighter-against-the-nazism-and-persecuted-by-the-communists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/29\/farewell-to-maria-mirecka-lorys-fighter-against-the-nazism-and-persecuted-by-the-communists\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Maria Mirecka-Lory\u015b: fighter against the nazism and persecuted by the communists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, May 29, Maria Mirecka-Lory\u015b, a veteran of the Polish resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II, passed away in Warsaw.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/02\/14\/armia-krajowa-75-years-ago-was-founded-the-largest-resistance-movement-of-the-ww2\/\">Armia Krajowa: the history of the greatest resistance movement of the World War II<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/08\/01\/warsaw-1944-the-day-that-polish-catholics-began-the-biggest-uprising-against-the-nazis\/\">Warsaw 1944: The day that Polish Catholics began the biggest uprising against the nazis<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pap.pl\/aktualnosci\/news%2C1226040%2Czmarla-mjr-maria-mirecka-lorys-komendantka-narodowej-organizacji-wojskowej\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PAP agency<\/a>, <strong>Maria Mirecka-Lory\u015b was born on February 7, 1916 in Ulan\u00f3w<\/strong>, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. She studied at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, where she joined the Polish Youth Academic Union.<strong> After the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, she joined the Polish resistance<\/strong>, as did many other women. In the spring of 1940, she was appointed commander of the Women's National Military Organization. <strong>In the spring of 1945, she became Commander-in-Chief of the Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe Kobiet (Women's National Military Union).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the war, Maria resumed her legal studies at the Jagiellonian University, but <strong>on August 1, 1945, she was arrested by the communist authorities in Nisko<\/strong>, only to be released a month later. Faced with the threat of being arrested again, <strong>in December 1945 she went into exile from Poland<\/strong> and joined the camp of the Second Polish Corps, commanded by General W\u0142adys\u0142aw Anders, near Ancona, Italy. There she met her husband, officer Henryk Lorysio, with whom <strong>she emigrated to Great Britain in October 1946.<\/strong><br \/>\nis<br \/>\n<strong>In January 1952 he left for the United States<\/strong> with her family, settling first in Toledo, Ohio, and in 1954 in Chicago. In the US, she participated in the organizations of Poles residing in the country,<strong> being a member of the Main Board of the Union of Polish Women in America and of the National Board of the Polish American Congress.<\/strong> For 32 years she was the editor of \"G\u0142os Polek\", the organ of the Union of Polish Women in America. <strong>In the 1970s she started helping Poles in the former border areas of Poland.<\/strong> In December 1999, she assumed the position of Vice President of the Supreme Council of the National Party. She also collaborated with Chicago Polish Radio.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, on her 100th birthday, <strong>the Polish Parliament adopted a resolution commemorating her patriotic activity: <\/strong><em>\"On the centenary of her birth, the Sejm of the Republic of Poland wants to express its gratitude to the extraordinary patriot Maria Mirecka-Lory\u015b and thank you for your enormous contribution to the struggle for the independence of the motherland and the constant care of the Poles. around the world,\"<\/em> the resolution said. <strong>These lines serve as a tribute to this brave fighter for freedom. Rest in peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><big><font style=\"font-size:35px;\">Cze\u015b\u0107 jej pami\u0119ci!<\/font><\/big><br \/>\nHonor to her memory!<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/polskieradio24.pl\/39\/156\/Artykul\/2897751,Maria-MireckaLorys-konczy-106-lat\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PolskieRadio24.pl<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, May 29, Maria Mirecka-Lory\u015b, a veteran of the Polish resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II, passed away in Warsaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25897],"tags":[16696,16695,10370,10389],"class_list":["post-47545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam-eng","tag-maria-mirecka-lorys","tag-narodowe-zjednoczenie-wojskowe-kobiet","tag-poland","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}