Róża Maria Goździewska

Róża Maria Goździewska, "Little Rose", the youngest Polish Nurse in the Warsaw Uprising at 8 years old 1944. 

Goździewska was born on 31 March 1936. Her father was killed by the Gestapo in 1943. A year later, on 1 August, the city of Warsaw was engulfed in the uprising against the German occupiers, with the civilian population caught in the middle. A number of child soldiers took part in the fighting on the side of the Polish insurgents.

Goździewska, eight years old at that time, she was helping in the field hospital at 11 Moniuszki Street in Warsaw. She was described as a nurse because she made the patients smile, brought them water to drink, and tried to clear away the flies. That field hospital was associated with the Polish insurgents' Home Army Koszta Company unit. Her relative, Jadwiga Obretenny, 19 years old at the time, was also a nurse in the Uprising.