War is seemingly a male matter. However, it changes women's lives as much as men's. How can you maintain a woman's sensitivity when there is cruelty, violence and injustice around you? When the red and white headband becomes the most fashionable accessory, and in the purse, next to the lipstick and the mirror, you need to hide the gun?
How to live in times when your own wedding ends with arrest by the Gestapo, when a close childbirth suspends the execution of the death sentence, and the execution of the task requires an affair with the enemy?
War girls Łukasz Modelski is the breathtaking wartime fate of 11 women, incl. Jadwiga Piłsudska (daughter of the Marshal of Poland), Lidia Lwow (associated with the legend of the Home Army - major "Łupaszka") and Halina Wittig (awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal).
Łukasz Modelski's book "War Girls" tells the story of women who did not allow the war to destroy their dreams.
When the war broke out, they were just saying goodbye to their childhood. They had more or less standard plans - school, baccalaureate, studies. Profession or farm. Husband. Passion. They wanted to make dreams come true. Or to please your parents. Differently. Like teenagers elsewhere in the world, they should be flirting, daydreaming, and changing outfits. They passed each other. Sometimes they bumped into each other, got to know each other, more often they didn't. But you get the impression that their fates have become entangled with each other. Literally - same addresses, same people they knew. Sometimes they could meet in the street, pass in the aisle.
On September 1, 1939, the oldest was 21, the youngest 14. How long did it take for them to mature rapidly? Year? Two? It's hard to grasp. Sometimes love came with war and it led them to adulthood. Sometimes compassion, sometimes irritation. Sometimes the purity of intention is pushed to the point of stupidity. Often the case. Mostly a sense of duty.