Anna Smoleńska
Anna Smoleńska, pseudonym Hania, was a Polish student of art history at the University of Warsaw, author of the symbol of Fighting Poland during World War II and girl scout of the Gray Ranks.
Life
She was the daughter of, a professor of chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology. The Smoleński family lived in the so-called House of Professors, which is part of the University of Technology's building complex at Koszykowa street 75.In 1938 she graduated from the Juliusz Słowacki Junior High School in Warsaw. She began studying art history at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Warsaw. During the German occupation, she studied at the Municipal Horticultural and Agricultural School at Opaczewska Street in Warsaw, where secret education was conducted in Polish. She completed a conspiracy communications course, and was a participant in the Wawer unit participating in Minor sabotage. She looked after the families of the arrested and provided them with secret messages from the Nazi Pawiak prison. She belonged to "Kuźnica Harcerska".
In 1942 she was a liaison at the Propaganda Department of the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the General Headquarters of the Union of Armed Struggle - the Home Army. In 1942 she won the competition of the Bureau of Information and Propaganda for the sign of the Polish Underground State - anchor project - the symbol of Fighting Poland.