Wanda Traczyk-Stawska

In 2018, she supported the protest of disabled people in the Sejm; she tried to meet with the participants, but was not allowed into the parliament building. During the 2020 Polish presidential election, she appeared in material recorded for Rafał Trzaskowski's campaign. In October 2020, she supported the protest against the tightening of abortion laws in Poland and protested against the use of the symbol of Fighting Poland by Jarosław Kaczyński during his statement. On 10 October 2021, she took part and spoke during a protest at the Castle Square in Warsaw after the Constitutional Tribunal's ruling on the superiority of the Constitution of Poland over European Union law

She is the daughter of Szczepan and Bronisława. She attended primary school no. 65 at 36 Białołęcka Street (currently 2 Bartnicza Street) in Bródno, from where, after three years, she moved to school no. 33 at 22 Grottgera Street in Mokotów. There, she belonged to the 42nd Żwirki i Wigury scout troop. Before the war she lived with her family in Dolna Street.

In 1947, she returned to Poland. She graduated from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw and started working at the Special School No. 6 for children with special needs in Praga. For many years she worked as a teacher at the Special Primary School No. 3 at 43 Ząbkowska Street. She was also responsible for finding the insurgents' graves in the city. She was the initiator of taking care of the Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery, she co-initiated the establishment of the 2nd October Remembrance Day for the Civilian Insurgents of Warsaw by the Parliament of the Polish Republic in 2015 and she initiated the construction of the memorial chamber in the park of the Warsaw Insurgents

She took part in the Warsaw Uprising as a gunner and a liaison officer in the Covering Detachment of the Military Publishing Works (WZW) - of the Bureau of Information and Propaganda - of the Home Army Headquarters. It was the disposition unit of Antoni Chruściel ps. "Monter", directed to support the insurgent units in northern Śródmieście. She also fought in southern Śródmieście and Powiśle, among other things to hold the power plant. On September 6, 1944 she was seriously wounded on Smolna Street

During the German occupation, since 1942, she was active in the independence conspiracy. As a member of the Gray Ranks she took part in minor sabotage and in Operation N, during which she delivered letters to informers warning them that if they did not stop their activities they would be sentenced to death.

Wanda Traczyk-Stawska ps. "Pączek", „Atma” (born on April 7, 1927 in Warsaw) – polish psychologist and social activist, activist of the Polish underground resistance movement during World War II, soldier of the Home Army, member of the Gray Ranks, participant of the Warsaw Uprising, chairman of the Social Committee for the Cemetery of Warsaw Insurgents.