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People's Guard WRN (Polish: Gwardia Ludowa WRN; GL WRN) and from May 1944 the Military Units of the Uprising Emergency of Socialists (Polish: Oddziały Wojskowe Pogotowia Powstańczego Socjalistów; OW PPS) [1] was a military branch of underground Polish Socialist Party WRN, and part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II.
During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising People's Guard attacked German units near the Ghetto walls [14] [15] and attempted to smuggle weapons, ammunition, supplies, and instructions into the Ghetto. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] After the uprising was over, GL helped Jews to escape Ghetto [ 19 ] and some Jewish militants joined the units of GL.
The group fought along with the People's Guard (Polish: Gwardia Ludowa) in a number of intense engagements against German forces, making use of machine guns, explosives for mining railways, and other supplies air-dropped by Soviet forces, with food stuffs requisitioned from local farmers. They participated in the takeover of the city of Parczew ...
The Polish Workers' Party (Polish: Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) was a communist party in Poland from 1942 to 1948. It was founded as a reconstitution of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) and merged with the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) in 1948 to form the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). [1]
In the People's Republic of Poland the actions of the Soviet-sponsored and created Gwardia Ludowa and Armia Ludowa entities were emphasized at the expense of those of the other resistance. A recent Polish documentary dedicated to the uprising has been recognized in the New York Festivals of 2008 with a bronze medal.
People's Guard can mean: Gwardia Ludowa, a communist armed organisation in Poland during World War II, organised by the Soviet-created Polish Workers Party; People's Guard (Libya), part of Muammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya; People's Guard of Georgia, a volunteer force of Georgian civilians who resisted the Red Army invasion in February 1921.
The first in English was Józef Garliński's Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp (1975), followed by M. R. D. Foot's Six Faces of Courage (1978). [14] The first in Polish was the Rotmistrz Pilecki (1995) by Wiesław Jan Wysocki, followed by Ochotnik do Auschwitz. Witold Pilecki 1901–1948 (2000) by Adam Cyra. [9]
A resistance movement is an organized group of people that tries to resist or try to overthrow a government or an occupying power, causing disruption and unrest in civil order and stability.