Janina Suchorzewska
Janina Stefania Suchorzewska, pseudonym Myszka (born née Tatarkiewicz 31 March 1930 Warsaw - 20 April 2021 Gdynia) was a Polish anesthesiologist, scout, and participant of the Warsaw Uprising.[1] She was awarded the Honorary Badge of the Polish Red Cross (1959, 1970), the Gold Cross of Merit (1989), the Medal of the National Education Commission (2000) and the Order of Polonia Restituta (2001) .
Life[change | change source]
In 1942, she became a member of the Grey Ranks. She participated in the Warsaw Uprising .[2]
She was employed as a professor and manager at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Gdańsk She was an associate professor at the Medical University of Gdańsk. Among the doctors taught by her were: Maria Wujtewicz (1985), Andrzej Basiński (1989), Romuald Lango (1998), Anna Paprocka-Lipińska (1999).
She rescued the wounded during the 1970 Polish protests, during martial law, she protected the opposition from arrest
She died on April 20, 2021 at the age of 91.[1] She is buried in the Catholic cemetery in Sopot.
Family[change | change source]
She was the daughter the Warsaw lawyer Jan Tatarkiewicz, and of Zofia; and niece of the historian of philosophy, Władysław Tatarkiewicz.