1940 POLISH RESISTANCE FIGHTER LETTER TO HER HUSBAND IN NAZI POW CAMP OFLAG VIIA

Halina Tomsza-Zapolski was a Polish woman who survived as a Resistance Fighter and eventually escaping the Warsaw ghetto, working as a forced laborer in Germany, and eventually immigrating to the United States.

Along with her 2 daughters Halina & Ludmila, she was forced into the Warsaw ghetto in 1940 before they escaped in 1942 and lived in hiding, later working as housemaids under false names. During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, they were captured and sent to forced labor camps near Leipzig until their liberation in April 1945. After the war, they went to a displaced persons camp and learned that her father, Polish War Hero Franciszek Tomsza- Zapolski had also survived the P.O.W. camps but was then murdered by the Soviets after returning home from the War in 1947. Halina and her daughter afterwards emigrated to the United States. 

Franciszek Tomsza-Zapolski and his wife Halina had two daughters: Halina (born 1925) and Ludmiła (born 1927). His wife and daughters were deeply involved in the underground and belonged to the Home Army : they buried burned conspirators from Warsaw, conducted clandestine teaching , and helped partisans. The older daughter, Halina, operated under the pseudonym "Kalina." 15-year-old Ludmiła died in 1942 as a result of an accident