Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz

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Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, (1886-1968), code name “Alinka” or "Alicja", wife of the former Polish Ambassador to Washington, connected to both military and political leaders of the Polish Underground during World War II.

Krahelska-Filipowicz used her influence to persuade the Government in Exile including members of the Delegatura and its military counterpart, the AK, of the importance of setting up a central organization to help Jews, and to back it up with significant funding.

Krahelska-Filipowicz also personally sheltered Jews in her own home early during the German occupation. Among them, the widow of the Jewish historian Szymon Aszkenazy.

A Catholic Socialist activist and a devout Democrat, she was the editor of the Polish art magazine "Arkady".

In 1906 at the age of twenty, she took part in the bombing attack on the Russian governor-general of Warsaw, Georgii Skalon, when Poland was partitioned among Germany, the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian Empires.