Wanda Poltava is dead

At the age of almost 102, Dr. Wanda, a half-than guardian of standards, clear definitions, defender of household and life, died. She stood in attitude and view.

Before the war, she attended SS school Ursulanek. She was the Scout of the 4th Lublin Scouting squad of the Lviv Eagles. Since 1938 a team. During the war, she became active in anti-German conspiracy activities. She was arrested by the Gestapo on 17 February 1941 and imprisoned at the castle in Lublin. Monsterly tortured and interrogated. On 21 September 1941 she was taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Sentenced to death in the past. In the camp she was the victim of medical experiments carried out by the president of the German Red Cross Prof. Kara Gebhardt (1897-1948), Dr. Fritz Ernest Fischer (1912-2003), Dr. Rolf Rosenthal (1911-1947) and Dr. Herta Oberheuser (1911-1978).

She said "we were rabbits." She was included in a group of prisoners from Lublin, where sulphonamides were tested, legs were cut, glass fragments, metal, soil, wood wool were inserted into the wounds. Only any of them were given medication. They were undergoing bone surgeries requiring limb fractures. Of the 74 women who were operated, 5 died immediately after the surgery. Six more were shot. 63 of them survived the camp. Forced participation in experiments did not relieve prisoners of hard physical labor. A group of Polish political prisoners, in which Wanda Połtawska was located, conducted a secret teaching, and Dr. Połtawska sent information about the operations home, writing flu in urine. She besides saw the defender throw a surviving newborn kid into the oven with his own eyes – as Prof. Mirosław Dakowski mentioned in his text. Shortly before the end of the war, she was transported to a camp in Neustadt-Glewe, where she stayed until May 7, 1945. Lying on a camp bunk next to a gypsy corpse, she decided to become a doctor. There she was liberated. After the war, she wrote down her war history, and after 20 years she published it under the title “I fear dreams.” The book was translated into Japanese, English, German and Italian. She recalled: “In Ravensbrück camp, German scientists crossed the limits of morality in medicine, justifying this with the good of science. I realized that there are limits not to be exceeded even for the sake of medicine.”

She graduated from the Jagiellonian University in 1951 and then obtained both degrees of specialization and doctorate in psychiatry. In 1960, she became head of the Institute of household Theology, operating at the Kraków Metropolitan Curia. From 1952 to 1969, she was an assistant prof. at the Clinic of Psychiatric Medical Academy in Krakow, 1955–1997 lecturer in Pastoral medicine at the Pontifical Theological Faculty in Krakow, 1964–1972 an worker at the Department of Psychology of the Jagiellonian University. In 1967, she organized the Institute of household Theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty in Krakow and directed it for 33 years, holding the position of professor. From 1981 to 1984 she was a lecturer at the Institute of matrimony Studies and household of John Paul II at the Pontifical University of Lateran in Rome. She conducted investigation on the alleged children of the święcims – people who as children went to concentration camps. In April 1969, she resigned from the Clinic to devote herself primarily to matrimony and household counseling. She worked briefly, among others, with the large nationalist Valentin Majdanski (1899-1972), as Archbishop Kazimierz Majdanski (1916-2007) told me.

She was the 1 who won the plaque commemorating Polish women, inmate Ravensbrück and victims of German doctors. It was not easy to break through the wall of resentment and many attempts to discourage it by pro-German communities in Poland and local authorities in Germany. The German authorities saw the tenacity of Dr. Połtawska yet succumbed. She participated in the work of the Hitler Crime investigation Commission in Poland. She was besides devoid of primitive germanophobia.

She was a guardian of moral norms and clear definitions. Persistent in issues specified as opposition to abortion, euthanasia or in vitro fertilization. hard to specify gender, the importance of matrimony and a wider family. She was opposed not only to alleged gay marriages and adoptions by specified couples of children, but besides to any registration of specified unions. She supported many anti-abortion organizations and projects to tighten abortion rights. At the same time, she was skeptical about the issue of extremist punishment for women. She signed an open letter to the government and the president against the alleged Europride parades in Warsaw. In May 2014, she was the initiator and author of the text Declaration of the religion of Catholic Doctors and Medical Students on sex and Human Fertility. This declaration was compared in the leftist and LGBT environments to the text of the Mayor of Moscow Yuri Lusatia, who in 2007 described equality parades as satanic. She criticized the sanitary policy related to COVID-19. There's a evidence where he laughs at wearing masks. During a gathering with Minister Adam Niedzielski, she said: “I am looking at you and I am not amazed that you have these rags, for who believes that they are protecting us from viruses? medicine is lying to us."

For 50 years she was friends with Karol Wojtyla/Jan Paul II. Their faith, closeness of view, and their love of mountain hiking combined. He considered her a close friend and advised on various matters. The book “Beskid retreats” was created about this friendship. She herself answered the question whether she had influenced the pope’s decisions: “I did not measurement that influence. However, I surely influenced him, as a woman, on a completely fresh reality, due to the fact that he had no chance to have neither a sister nor a parent – parent died early – and for him the planet of women was curious, and he was fascinated by femininity," she said to the Facts in 2021. John Paul II wrote in a letter to a friend in 1978: “You have been and inactive stay my individual expert in the field of Humanae vitae. This has been the case for 20 years and this should inactive be maintained. In the context of this expert there are various matters which you have been dealing with and on which you know, the problem of ethical regulation of conception, upbringing of young people to love, pastoral medicine.”

She was 1 of the fewer people who spoke to the Pope sincerely. Wanda Połtawska was 1 of those people who informed Pope John Paul II about sexual abuse in the Polish Church. Many hierarchs did not like the engagement of Dr. Half-Tavian. The mystery of the polysinnel was that her work was reduced by the already-dead influential Lublin hierarchy. Most likely it was she who informed Pope John Paul II about the case of Archbishop Julius Paetz.

Her husband was a well-known anthropologist and Catholic activist prof. Andrzej Połtawski (1923-2020). He was a associate in the Warsaw Uprising as part of the “Sailboat” Group of the 2nd territory of Żoliborz of the Warsaw territory of the Home Army. They had 5 children, 4 of whom survived.

Wanda Połtawska was the author of, among another things, “Learn to love”, “Get ready for marriage”, “With electricity and against the current”, “Life itself”, “Homosexuality – a private matter?” or “Love, Marriage, Family”. She was decorated with a number of awards and awards. Among them: Commander's Cross of the Order of Saint Gregory the large (1999), Medal of the Holy Jadwiga of the Papal Theological Academy in Krakow (1999), Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of the Polish Revival (2016) and Order of the White Eagle (2016). She was besides an Honorary Citizen of Lublin, Limanowa, Zakopane, Świdnik and Siedlec.

In the 1980s, respective texts by Dr. Wanda Połtawska included the emigration “Myśl Polska”.

Łukasz Jastrzębski developed