Special coins mark Poland’s post-WWII anti-communist resistance

The bank’s Barbara Jaroszek said the two coins mark the beginning of a series which will eventually comprise more than 20 coins.

She said the first coin is designed to commemorate all members of the armed postwar pro-independence underground.

Its reverse shows a group of soldiers against a background of stylized trees, a red-and-white Polish flag and the inscription: "They behaved as they should have done."

The second coin commemorates medical orderly Danuta Siedzikówna, (also known as Inka, her nom de guerre), a member of the Polish underground Home Army who was executed in 1946 -- when she was just 17 years old -- by the Soviet-backed communist regime that came to power in Poland after World War II.

Poland on 1 March marks the National Day of the “Cursed Soldiers” to commemorate some members of Poland's anti-communist movements.

After Poland's official underground army (AK) of World War II disbanded in 1945, thousands of Poles continued to fight in other formations against the imposition of communism as the Soviet Red Army extended its grip across the country.

(pk)

Source: IAR