People's Guard (Gwardia Ludowa; GL WRN), since May 1944 Oddziały Wojskowe Pogotowia Powstańczego Socjalistów (OW PPS) - an underground military organization founded in October 1939 by the PPS-WRN. The commander in chief: K. Puzak. Since 1940 it was formally (on the principles of autonomy) included into the ZWZ-AK, it led sabotage, subversion, guerrilla activities (including the troops of S. Wencl, G. Woznica, Z. Alexandrovich), and in the region of Oswiecim - the help to the Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners. 1942 it worked as an auxiliary service of the GL WRN (OW PPS) and PPS-WRN Police, the Military Service for Women (the commander in chief Woliniewska L.). The OW PPS groupings in the 16 districts of the PPS-WRN in the second half of the 1944 consisted of 42 thousand soldiers (the most were in the districts of Zaglebie Dabrowskie, Krakow, Tarnow, Radom), and the Military Service for Women - 5 thousand members. The OW PPS troops fought in the "Storm" Operation, during the Warsaw Uprising and the January offensive in 1945. It was dissolved in January 1945. The Press: "Gwardia Ludowa", then "Do szeregu”.
People's Guard
The term was created within the framework of the project Zapisywanie świata żydowskiego w Polsce [recording the Jewish environment in Poland], whose author is Anka Grupińska, a well-known Polish journalist and writer, specializing in the modern history of the Polish Jews. The project, initiated in 2006 by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, consists in recording interviews with Polish Jews from all generations.
