Wanda Kamieniecka-Grycko

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Wanda Kamieniecka-Grycko, pseudonym "Czarna Wanda" (born September 5, 1910 in Warsaw, died April 18, 1999 in Riverside) - harpist, in 1942-1944 Commander of the Warsaw Harcerek Chorus, 1952-1956 chairman of the District Board ZHP United States.

Educated archaeologist. Before the war (from 1932 to 1939) she ran 26 WDH im. Emilia Szczaniecka at the General School No. 89 in Prague. In the first days of September 1939 she and her husband Stanislaus were evacuated to Lviv, where she managed to return to Warsaw only in the autumn of 1941. One year later she was assigned to manage the Warsaw Harcerek Chorus. During the Warsaw Uprising she created a female team of the Military Social Service. After the fall of the insurrection, she was sent to a transition camp for civilians in Pruszkow, then to Cracow and Poronin, where she ran a child's home from December 1944 to September 1945. At the end of 1945 she illegally escaped from Poland to join her husband in England. In September 1947, after receiving an American visa, she settled in the United States. In the beginning of the 50s she made contact with Girl Scouts of America, where she worked for 25 years working professionally while engaging in developing Scouting Polonia. Bibliography

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