Polish women in history.

1. GREATEST POLISH WOMEN
IN HISTORY

2. The Queen
of Poland
1384-1399
JADWIGA ANDEGAWEŃSKA

3.  Jadwiga was one of the greatest rulers of
Poland.
 She helped preserve the peace with the
Teutonic Order.
 She established new hospitals, schools and
churches, and restored older ones.
 She promoted the use of Polish in church
services.
 She donated all of her personal jewelry to
The Jagiellonian University.
Achievements

4. In recognition of her
virtues and services
she was canonized on
8th June 1997 by Pope
John Paul II.

5. EMILIA PLATER
A Polish
noblewoman and
revolutionary, a
heroine of the
November
Uprising.
(1806-1831)

6. When the Polish-Russian war broke out,
Emilia Plater immediately decided to join the
army. She cut her hair and wore a uniform.
She raised a small unit of 500 people and
participated in many successful battles. She
soon became a Captian in the Polish army.
Her unit fought bravely against the Russian
Army. Unfortunately, she bacame fatally ill
and died on 23rd December, 1831 at the age of
25.

7. Her determination
and courage became
a symbol of the
uprising and the
icon of Polish
freedom.

8. A Polish
physicist and
chemist.
(1867 - 1934)
MARIA SKŁODOWSKA - CURIE

9. Maria Skłodowska Curie was the precursor of a new
branch of chemistry – radiochemistry.
She developed the theory of radioactivy for which she
was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.
She discovered two new elements: radium and polonium
for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in 1911.
She was the first woman to receinve the Nobel Prize, and
to this day she remains the only person in history to
receive two Nobel Prizes in two different fields of science.
Achievements

10. Maria
Skłodowska-
Curie is the first
woman who
rests in the Paris
Pantheon for her
achievements.

11. WANDA RUTKIEWICZ
The most famous
Polish
mountainer and
climber.
(born 4th
February, 1943)

12. Achievements
 As the third woman in
the world and the first
Polish woman Wanda
Rutkiewicz stood on
Mount Everest, the
highest peak on Earth.
 As the first woman in the
world she stood at the
summit of K2

13. Wanda Rutkiewicz went
missing in 1992 during
the summit attack on
Kangchenjunga.
As Reinhold Messner,
once said: Wanda is the
living proof that women
can put up performances
at high altitude that
most men can only
dream of.

14. Wisława Szymborska
A Polish poet,
essayist and
translator .
(1923 - 2012)

15. Achievements
Szymborska was awarded
the 1996 Nobel Prize in
Literature "for poetry
that with ironic precision
allows the historical and
biological context to
come to light in
fragments of human
reality".

16. Achievements
 Her work has been translated into English and many
European languages, as well as into Arabic, Hebrew,
Japanese, Persian and Chinese.
 In 2005 she received Gold Medal for Merit to Culture -
Gloria Artis.
 In 2011 she was awarded Order of the White Eagle.

17. IRENA SENDLER
A Polish
humanitarian, social
worker, and nurse who
saved 2500 children
during the Holocaust.
(1910 - 2008)

18. out, Irena Sendler was a 29-
year-old social worker.
She used her documents of
a social worker to enter the
Warsaw Ghetto. She used
ambulances, stretchers,
underground sewers, old
courthouses and even
potato sacks to smuggle
children out of the ghetto.
Then she helped place the
children at convents or
with non-Jewish families.

19. Irena kept detailed
lists of the children
she helped. She put
them in a jar which
she buried. Her
plan was to reunite
the rescued children
and their families
after the war.
Unfortunately, most
of the parents died.

20. She was also part of
Zegota, a Polish
underground group that
assisted Jewish people.
On October 20, 1943 , the
Nazis arrested Sendler.
They broke both her arms
and legs and beat her
severely to force her to give
up the names of Zegota
leaders. She refused and
gave them fake
information.

21. In 1965, Yad Vashem,
Israel’s Holocaust
memorial organization,
recognized Irena Sendler
as Righteous Among the
Nations.
In 2003, she was honored
with Poland's Order of
the White Eagle. In 2008,
Sendler was nominated
for a Nobel Peace Prize.

22. Some of her quotes are:
 “The world can be better if there’s love,
tolerance and humility.”
 “People can be only divided into good or
bad; their race, religion, nationality don’t
matter.”
 “You see a man drowning, you must try to
save him even if you cannot swim.”