On Friday, 11 October 2w013, Janina Wasiłojć-Smolańska became the latest Szczecinianka to be commemorated by a plaque in a series of events organised by ‘Niezwykłych szczecinian i ich kamienice’ (Remarkable Szczecinianins and their tenements).
106 Bohaterów Warszawy, former residence of Janina Wasiłojć-Smolenska
Janina Wasiłojć-Smoleńska took part in the Polish resistance movement as a nurse, and played an active role in Wileńszczyzna (the Wilno district, currently in Lithuania). In 1947, she was given two death sentences, which were later commuted to imprisonment. Pani Janina worked as a teacher of Polish for a number of years in schools in Szczecin.
Janina Wasiłojć-Smoleńska lived in Szczecin from 1956, after spending almost ten years in prison in Fordon near Bydgoszcz and in Inowrocław for anti-communist activities. After her release, she moved to 106 Bohaterów Warszawy, where she lived with her husband and mother. Here, she gave birth to a son, and began studies at the Teacher Training College in Opole. Pani Janina helped found the Teacher Training College in Szczecin, and lectured in Szczecin University.
After the end of the Peopl’s Republic of Poland, she received a number of awards, including the Officer’s Cross and the Commander’s Cross in the Order of Poland’s Rebirth. Janina Wasiloć-Smoleńska diad in August 2010, aged 84.
Veteran Choir at 106 Bohaterów Warszawy, former residence of Janina Wasiłojć-Smoleńska
Further images of the commemoration below:
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