Biography of krystyna wituska

On June 26, 2014, there will be an unveiling of a monument in memory of a young and rather unimportant member of the Polish resistance, Krystyna Wituska, in a cemetery in Halle-Saale, a city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt where prisoners from the Alt-Moabit prison in Berlin were taken for execution, by guillotine.

There is a museum there as well as a memorial centre dedicated to all the victims killed there, many of them Germans, but Wituska was chosen as the figure who will represent them all. The funding for the monument was initiated by the daughter of the judge who sentenced Wituska to death.

The 26th marks the 70th anniversary of her execution; also on this date German authors, Simone Trieder and Lars Skowronski, will launch their new book about Wituska and her Polish friends who shared Cell No. 18.

Wituska’s nephew, Tomasz Steppa, has been i