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Alina Nowobilska

@ww2girl1944.bsky.social
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Historian of Poland in WW2. Specialising in Poles in Auschwitz, & the #WarsawUprising. Now running history tours in Poland! Check out my podcast "Moments in Time: WW2 Edition" #biker

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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
After nearly 2.5 years I think that my face has changed a fair bit..... You can even see the change in the new podcasts because they were recorded earlier this year. To date I've lost 47kg which is 103lb or 7.4 stone. I am way over the half way line with a bit more to go...... 💪🏼
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have been talking about it for months, and now my new Podcast is finally live. Here is the reel that gives you a sneak peek at what's to come! And the star of the show shows his face toward the end! #History #WW2 #podcastreel #podcasting youtube.com/shorts/d_K0u...
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Welcome to our "Defying Empires" podcast!
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is finally LIVE! My new podcast with the Pilecki Institute! My first guest is the fanfriggingtastic Ian Garner.But we only touched the tip of the iceberg in this convo so if you want more of our banter and sarcasm let me know!! Link ⬇️ youtu.be/qQqhFieSCVc?... #Podcasting #DefyingEmpiresPodcast
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is finally LIVE! My new podcast with the Pilecki Institute! My first guest is the fanfriggingtastic Ian Garner.But we only touched the tip of the iceberg in this convo so if you want more of our banter and sarcasm let me know!! Link ⬇️ youtu.be/qQqhFieSCVc?... #Podcasting #DefyingEmpiresPodcast
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Jessica S. @rednavy70.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lovely walking tour of Warsaw today with @ww2girl1944.bsky.social. Highly recommend her if you need a tour guide.
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Jessica S. @rednavy70.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wish I had more time in Poland 🇵🇱 with @ww2girl1944.bsky.social
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#OTD in 1944: 24-year-old Zdzisław Bobkowski, codename "Borota," fell during the #WarsawUprising. Accounts vary—some say he was killed on ul. Koszykowa; others that he was severely wounded during the capture of "Mała Pasta" on 22 August 1944 and died that same evening.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
On this day in 1944, 17-year-old Andrzej Błędowski — codename "Bury" — died in the John of God hospital on Bonifraterska Street during the Warsaw Uprising. His older sister Krystyna, who was a messenger in the uprising, survived. #OTD #WarsawUprising #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#OTD 1944 — 26-year-old Stanisław Kozicki (codename "Howerla") fell during the assault on Gdańsk Railway Station in the #WarsawUprising. Ten days before the uprising he married courier Zofia Kowalczyk (codename "Imelda"); she survived and remarried two years after the war.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#OTD in 1944, 21-year-old nurse Ewa Stefanowska — known by the codename "Ewa" — was killed during the assault on Gdańsk Railway Station amid the #WarsawUprising.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#OTD in 1944: 16-year-old Mieczysław Niedzielski, codename "Lynx," succumbed to wounds sustained during the #WarsawUprising. #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#OTD 1944 — 11-year-old Wojciech Zalewski, codename "Orzeł Biały," was killed during the #WarsawUprising while scouting out the area and delivering a report. On August 21, 1944, on the grounds of the coffee factory at 37 Grzybowska Street,
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#OTD in 1944, 22-year-old Zdzisław Buczyński (codename "Seta") fell during the #WarsawUprising. His twin brother Marian, serving in the same platoon, was killed seven days later — both brothers lost their lives in the Uprising; they weren’t the only twins or siblings to perish. #WW2 #History
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On this day in 1944, 20-year-old nurse Halina Namokel — codename "Jaga" — was killed during the Warsaw Uprising. Wounded earlier in an accident, she was being treated at the field hospital on Długa Street 15, near the Old Town,
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
OTD 1944: 13-year-old messenger Jerzy Kotuszewski — codename "Jurek" — lost his life in the #WarsawUprising. He served with Battalion Krybar in Powiśle, the same unit my grandfather belonged to. So many teens took on perilous roles as messengers, postmen, cooks, nurses and more. #WW2 #History
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On this day in 1944, 19-year-old nurse and messenger Jadwiga Danuta Lewicka — codename "Orchidea" — succumbed to wounds from the #WarsawUprising. She died on her 19th birthday. #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
On this day in 1944, 21-year-old Zygmunt Gorączewski — codename "Zygmunt" — lost his life at Długa Street 15 during the #WarsawUprising. #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#OTD in 1944, 16-year-old Władysław Kamiński succumbed to his injuries in a field hospital at the PKO building on Jasna Street 9 during the #WarsawUprising. Wounded in early August—shot in the spine and legs—he was left unable to move. #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#OTD in 1944, 24-year-old Władysław Milczarski, codename "Kolczuk," was gravely wounded in the head by a Goliath self-propelled mine. He was moved to a temporary hospital at Poznańska Street 15 and died from his injuries the same day. #History #WW2 #WarsawUprising
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
On this day in 1944, 20-year-old nurse Barbara Rankowska (codename "Grom") succumbed to her wounds. She was on duty when she was gravely injured at the entrance to St. John's Cathedral on 16 August. She is buried beside her two brothers. #WW2 #WarsawUprising
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On this day in 1944, 18-year-old Tadeusz Łobodziec — codename "Spadek" — fell at Krasińskiego Street 14 during the #WarsawUprising. He’d turned 18 just three days earlier. #OTD #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#OTD in 1944, 20-year-old messenger Danuta Sidorowicz, codename "Zosia," vanished during the #WarsawUprising. Last seen in Muranów, her remains were never recovered. #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#OTD in 1944, 18-year-old medic Barbara Zmysłowska — codename "Beata" — was killed during the Warsaw Uprising in the Old Town. Little else is recorded about her. She is buried at Powązki Military Cemetery. #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#OTD in 1944, 13-year-old messenger Maria Teresa Bartnik was killed during the #WarsawUprising. She was last seen on patrol in the Old Town on Długa Street with Stanisław Letowt and is believed to have been among about 300 people killed where a heavy charge carrier detonated on Kilińskiego Street.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
On this day in 1944, 20-year-old Marek Długoszowski — codename "Baobab" — lost his life in Muranów at the corner of Muranowska and Pokorna during the #WarsawUprising. During the occupation he was active in the underground, trained as a resistance fighter and took part in numerous missions.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#OTD in 1944, 17-year-old Jerzy Grąbczewski (codename "Nałęcz") was shot in the abdomen and killed on Solec Street during the #WarsawUprising. His older brother Florian survived the fighting despite being wounded three times, including a severe head injury.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#OTD in 1944 — on the 12th day of the Uprising, 17-year-old nurse Barbara Rzymkowska (codename "Basia") was killed during the fight for Warsaw’s Old Town. Her place of burial remains unknown. #WarsawUprising #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#OTD 1944: 22-year-old Leszek Skrzyński, codename "Boruta," was killed during the #WarsawUprising. His younger brother Janusz fought in Praga across the river but was rounded up with civilians and deported to KL Ravensbrück, where he died eight days before liberation. #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
On this day in 1944—the 12th day of the Warsaw Uprising—13-year-old messenger Izabella Niewiarowska died of abdominal wounds after being shot. She was first buried in a temporary grave; after the war her parents identified her, and she was exhumed and reburied in Old Powązki Cemetery.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
OTD in 1944: 16-year-old messenger Zbigniew Wasilewicz, codename "Zbych", was killed in the area of Podwale/Miodowa Street in the Old Town during the Warsaw Uprising. No other information is given. #OTD #WarsawUprising #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
OTD 1944: 22-year-old messenger and medic Jadwiga Krystyna Cyrańska, codename "Wisia," was killed on Ligocka Street during the #WarsawUprising. She was delivering a message with her friend Maria Garszyńska-Jarosz when a bullet hit her abdomen. Maria survived the war. #History
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
On this day in 1944, Polish prose writer, poet and publicist Stanisław Czosnowski — one of the interwar period’s most notable aphorists — was murdered by the SS RONA Brigade alongside his 13-year-old son. They were shot at the gate of Wawelska Street 60.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
On Day 9 of the Warsaw Uprising OTD in 1944, 19-year-old nurse and messenger Zofia Józefa Piwnicka was murdered. Captured by German soldiers on Pole Mokotowskie with a friend, she was shot and her body was never found.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
On this day in 1944, 51-year-old nurse Maria Babicka‑Zachert was killed by the RONA Brigade at al. Niepodległości 223. Her husband, Dr. Marian Zachert, was murdered with her.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#OTD — On day 7 of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, 23-year-old Janina Wanda Sidorska, codename "Nuna", was killed while performing procedures on a patient at the field hospital she’d set up at Narbutta Street 37.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
On this day in 1944, 21-year-old lieutenant Włodzimierz Rybka, known as "Raf," was killed during the #WarsawUprising at the Karol and Maria hospital alongside about 100 patients and staff — the Germans burned him alive.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
On Day 6 of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, 19‑year‑old platoon commander Stanisław Gromulski (codename "Ruskin") died in the hospital on Śliska Street 51 from wounds he received on 4 August—he was hit by shrapnel in the abdomen on Chmielna Street 6.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
On Day 6 of the #WarsawUprising, 16-year-old Zbigniew Adamczyk (codename "Gordon") was severely wounded at the Marszałkowska–Plac Zbawiciela barricade. He was taken to a field hospital on Marszałkowska Street but later died from his injuries. #OTD #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
#OTD 1944 — 24-year-old nurse Krystyna Wańkowicz, codename "Anna," was killed during the #WarsawUprising. She was struck by mortar/grenade fire in the Calvinist (Evangelical) Cemetery in Wola while covering retreating fighters; her body was never found.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
On this day in 1944 — the fifth day of the Warsaw Uprising — nurses Zofia Horodyńska‑Waśkowska (31) and her 22‑year‑old sister Maria lost their lives on Dąbrowski Square while carrying the wounded. Before the war Zofia worked as a graphic designer and illustrated children's books;
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Around 6pm #OTD during the #WarsawUprising German troops entered St. Lazarus Hospital in Wola. Inside were the sick and wounded, about 150 hospital staff with their families, five doctors, a scout nursing team of 15, dozens of captured German soldiers being treated, and roughly 300 other patients.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
On the fifth day of the Warsaw Uprising, 31-year-old film and theatre actor and insurgent Zbigniew Rakowiecki was seized and murdered at Radomska Street by the SS‑RONA (Kamiński’s) Brigade — a unit notorious for mass murder and sexual violence. His killing was part of the Ochota massacre,
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Day 4 of the #WarsawUprising: 32-year-old physician Władysław Budzyński was shot by German soldiers in the hospital where he worked while trying to aid an injured nurse. He was buried in a mass grave, later exhumed and reinterred in 1947 at Powązki Military Cemetery.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
On Day 5 of the #WarsawUprising, teenage nurse Barbara Dominiak — codename "Baśka" — succumbed to wounds sustained in the fighting. About 14–15 years old, she was burned and seriously injured.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Day 3 of the #WarsawUprising: 21-year-old messenger Henryka Narostek lost her life the same day her 24-year-old fiancé, Antoni Grabowski, was killed. That morning Antoni’s platoon had dismantled rails between Legionowo and Chotomów to derail German trains, blocking a key route.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Captured on the first day of the #WarsawUprising while carrying an order between units, 19-year-old messenger Halina Jasiukowicz was executed by German forces on Skolimowska Street on this day. #History #WW2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Day 2 of the Warsaw Uprising and 19 year old messenger Hanna Rychłowska was killed while trying to break through to the Kampinos forest where the rest of her unit was located. There were about 150 insurgents that set off and they were all armed with a dozen or so pistols, grenades, and rifles.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Day 2 of the #WarsawUprising and 23 year old medic, Maria Kwiecinska, codename, "Maja" was killed alongside her husband Lieutenant Zbigniew Kwieciński, codename "Pretwicz". They were part of a group of insurgents who launched an attack on a Dominican Monastery in the southern part of Warsaw.
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Want to know more about the Uprising? Then check out the awesome day by day podcast I put together back in 2024! Search for "Moments in Time: WW2 Edition Podcast". Available on all streaming platforms!! #History #podcasts #ww2
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Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It was #OTD in 1944, in the first few hours of the #WarsawUprising, 18 year old nurse, Dorota Łempicka, codename,"Dorota" was seriously wounded trying to help another wounded soldier, Lieutenant Franciszek Gramza codename "Franek". Dorota and Franciszek died from the injuries they sustained that day
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