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Aniela Krzywoń

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Polish soldier (1925-1943)

Lived 1925 to 1943 · aged 18
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Aniela Krzywoń was a private in the "Emilia Plater" Independent Women's Battalion of the Polish People's Army during the Second World War and became the only woman in history who was not a citizen of the Soviet Union to be awarded the USSR's highest honor for bravery, the title Hero of the Soviet Union, after she died...

Awards 3

1943Hero of the Soviet Union
Order of Lenin
Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari

About this person

Aniela Krzywoń was a private in the "Emilia Plater" Independent Women's Battalion of the Polish People's Army during the Second World War and became the only woman in history who was not a citizen of the Soviet Union to be awarded the USSR's highest honor for bravery, the title Hero of the Soviet Union, after she died of injuries sustained while rescuing important military documents from a burning truck after a Luftwaffe bombing raid.

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deceased
Dates
Lived 1925 to 1943 · aged 18
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