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A 94-yr-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising versus the Nazis however experienced a lot of fight left at a new European Union rally in Poland. She confronted down a group of heckling rightwing extremists to loudly convey to a person of them: “Be quiet, stupid boy, you awful bastard.”
“I’m a soldier, I tell it like it is,” Wanda Traczyk-Stawska later on advised Agence France Presse at her residence in Warsaw.
She was just a woman when the Nazis invaded Poland. She joined the resistance, using the codename “Doughnut,” and fought at 17 in the Warsaw Rebellion when some 200,000 Polish fighters and civilians ended up killed.
She survived four POW camps and at last finished up back again residence to work as a instructor. She was named Warsaw’s Citizen of the Yr in 2021.
Now she’s battling to keep Poland in the EU in the experience of a wave of anti-immigrant hatred pushing for a “Polexit.”
Traczyk-Stawska climbed on a phase past thirty day period when tens of 1000’s of persons gathered to guidance Poland’s continued EU membership soon after the nation’s Constitutional Court contested EU legislation. She identified as for ongoing membership in the European community.
“I obtained up on stage to speak of the Poland of our dreams, us veterans of the uprising… a Poland that is form and tolerant,” Traczyk-Stawska additional.
She’s crestfallen by the struggle in excess of continued membership in the EU, and horrified by therapy of immigrants in Poland. “You can’t abandon a baby in danger. It’s shameful to deal with the border kids that way,” she told AFP.
She laments that there aren’t several remaining who fought the Nazis.
“We no extended have the strength to consider a stand. All we can do is weep,” she reported.
“Well, not all people,” she added. “Me, I’m not utilized to crying. I was a soldier.”
Wanda Traczyk-Stawska in her house in Warsaw, 80 a long time immediately after she fought the Nazis in the Warsaw Rebellion.
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