Danuta Siedzikówna
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Danuta Siedzikówna
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| Birth name | Danuta Siedzikówna |
| Nickname(s) | Inka |
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3 September 1928 Guszczewina, Poland |
| Died | 28 August 1946 (aged 17) Gdańsk, Poland |
| Allegiance |
 Poland
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| Rank | Orderly |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
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Polonia Restituta Komandorski 
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Danuta Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: Inka; underground name: Danuta Obuchowicz) was a Polish national heroine. Born 3 September 1928, Guszczewina – died 28 August 1946, Gdańsk) was a medical orderly in the 4th Squadron (created in the Białystok area) of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Polish Home Army. In 1946 she served with the Brigade's 1st Squadron in Poland's Pomorze (Pomerania) region.
Siedzikówna was born on 3 September 1928 in Guszczewina, near Narewka, Bielsk Podlaski. Her father, Wacław Siedzik, was a forester who had been sent to Siberia under the Tsar for being involved in pro-Polish independence organizations. He came back to Poland in 1923. In 1940 he was arrested by the NKVD and once again deported to Russia.
In 1941 he joined Władysław Anders' Polish Army (died in Teheran in 1943). Her mother, Eugenia, née Tymińskia Prus III coat of arms, was a member of the Home Army and was killed by the Gestapo in September 1943. Siedzikówna grew up with her siblings Wiesława (1927–2004) and Irena (1931? - 1978) in the forester's lodge near Guszczewina. After their father was exiled, then they moved to Narewka. The girls attended grammar school in Narewka until 1939. During the Second World War, until 1943 all three girls studied in the Salesian Sisters School in Różanystok near .
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