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'''Irena Scheur-Sawicka''' (1890-1944) was a Polish archaeologist and ethnographer, as well as an educational and communist activist. During [[World War II]] she joined the [[Polish Workers' Party]]. She was active in the Polish communist resistance during World War II, and together with [[Żegota]], in helping Jewish refugees from the [[Warsaw Ghetto]]. She died in the [[Warsaw Uprising]].
== Biography ==
Her father, Jan Scheur, was a French emigree to Poland.<ref name=":0"></ref> She studied with private tutors and small courses organized for women in Kraków and Warsaw. She quickly became engaged in educational activism, teaching street children.<ref name=":0" /> From 1915 she was married to archaeologist .<ref name=":0" /><ref></ref> They had no children.<ref name=":0" />
During World War I she and her husband were active in Polish expat organizations in Russia, and engaged in archaeological expeditions in the Far East (among other locations, in [[Harbin]]).<ref name=":0" /> After returning to newly independent Poland in 1918, she was active in organizations providing [[Adult education|education to adults]], as well as accompanied her husband in his archaeological research, taking several courses in archeology offered by the [[Warsaw Scientific Society]]. From the early 1920s she worked as a [[conservator-restorer]] for the Polish government, and also published several scientific articles. From 1922 to 1927 she was also a secretary of the Polish Prehistorical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Prehistoryczne).<ref name=":0" />
In the late 1920s her focus shifted from archaeology to education. She was involved in a number of organizations and institutions focused on adult education, such as the Institute for the Education of Adults (Instytut Oświaty Dorosłych) and the 3rd Center of the Education for the Adults (III Ognisko Oświaty Dorosłych).<ref name=":0" />
In the 1930s she became involved with the work of the [[Communist Party of Poland]].<ref name=":0" /> Following the German invasion of Poland, she became active in the non-violent [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance]], such as the [[Education in Poland during World War II|underground education]] and [[Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust|rescue of Jews]] (from the [[Warsaw Ghetto]]).<ref name=":0" /> She has been described by [[Adolf Berman]] as a prominent member of [[Żegota]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/3gvKp79 Jewish Resistance: Konrad Żegota Committee], Jewish Virtual Library</ref><ref name="Prekerowa19992"></ref> In 1942 she joined the [[Polish Workers' Party]] were she was a high ranking official in the [[Żoliborz]] and [[Mokotów]] districts, and active in providing supplies to the partisans of [[Armia Ludowa]].<ref name=":0" />
She died in the first days of the [[Warsaw Uprising]], killed by a stray German gunfire (her day of death is given as either August 1<ref name="TomaszewskiWerbowski2010"></ref> or August 4<ref name=":0" />).
==References==
[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1944 deaths]]
[[Category:Polish archaeologists]]
[[Category:20th-century Polish educators]]
[[Category:Polish communists]]
[[Category:Polish people of World War II]]
[[Category:Polish people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust]]
== Biography ==
Her father, Jan Scheur, was a French emigree to Poland.<ref name=":0"></ref> She studied with private tutors and small courses organized for women in Kraków and Warsaw. She quickly became engaged in educational activism, teaching street children.<ref name=":0" /> From 1915 she was married to archaeologist .<ref name=":0" /><ref></ref> They had no children.<ref name=":0" />
During World War I she and her husband were active in Polish expat organizations in Russia, and engaged in archaeological expeditions in the Far East (among other locations, in [[Harbin]]).<ref name=":0" /> After returning to newly independent Poland in 1918, she was active in organizations providing [[Adult education|education to adults]], as well as accompanied her husband in his archaeological research, taking several courses in archeology offered by the [[Warsaw Scientific Society]]. From the early 1920s she worked as a [[conservator-restorer]] for the Polish government, and also published several scientific articles. From 1922 to 1927 she was also a secretary of the Polish Prehistorical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Prehistoryczne).<ref name=":0" />
In the late 1920s her focus shifted from archaeology to education. She was involved in a number of organizations and institutions focused on adult education, such as the Institute for the Education of Adults (Instytut Oświaty Dorosłych) and the 3rd Center of the Education for the Adults (III Ognisko Oświaty Dorosłych).<ref name=":0" />
In the 1930s she became involved with the work of the [[Communist Party of Poland]].<ref name=":0" /> Following the German invasion of Poland, she became active in the non-violent [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance]], such as the [[Education in Poland during World War II|underground education]] and [[Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust|rescue of Jews]] (from the [[Warsaw Ghetto]]).<ref name=":0" /> She has been described by [[Adolf Berman]] as a prominent member of [[Żegota]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/3gvKp79 Jewish Resistance: Konrad Żegota Committee], Jewish Virtual Library</ref><ref name="Prekerowa19992"></ref> In 1942 she joined the [[Polish Workers' Party]] were she was a high ranking official in the [[Żoliborz]] and [[Mokotów]] districts, and active in providing supplies to the partisans of [[Armia Ludowa]].<ref name=":0" />
She died in the first days of the [[Warsaw Uprising]], killed by a stray German gunfire (her day of death is given as either August 1<ref name="TomaszewskiWerbowski2010"></ref> or August 4<ref name=":0" />).
==References==
[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1944 deaths]]
[[Category:Polish archaeologists]]
[[Category:20th-century Polish educators]]
[[Category:Polish communists]]
[[Category:Polish people of World War II]]
[[Category:Polish people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust]]
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