Helena Pasierbska-Wojtowicz is a Polish writer. Born in Wilno (now, Vilnius, Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

), member of Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego

Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego

Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego is the coeducational Polish Scouting organization recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. It was founded in 1918 and currently is the largest Scouting organization in Poland...

.

During the Second World War she joined the Polish resistance organization (first Związek Walki Zbrojnej

Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej

Związek Walki Zbrojnej was an underground army formed in Poland following its invasion in September 1939 by Germany and the Soviet Union that opened World War II.The precursor to the ZWZ was the Service...

, later Armia Krajowa

Armia Krajowa

The Armia Krajowa , or Home Army, was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland. It was formed in February 1942 from the Związek Walki Zbrojnej . Over the next two years, it absorbed most other Polish underground forces...

) and served as a curier and nurse. Took part in the Operation Ostra Brama. After the war she became a teacher and also researched the Ponary massacre

Ponary massacre

The Ponary massacre was the mass-murder of 100,000 people, mostly Polish Jews, by German SD and SS and Lithuanian Nazi collaborators Sonderkommando collaborators...

. She published several books and articles.

In 1975 she was decorated with Armia Krajowa Cross

Armia Krajowa Cross

Armia Krajowa Cross is a Polish military decoration that was introduced by General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski on 1 August 1966 to commemorate the efforts of the soldiers of the Polish Secret State between 1939 and 1945...

 and in 2004 received the Polonia Mater Nostra Est award. Honorary member of Polish Association in Lithuania (Związek Polaków na Litwie) and leader of "Ponary Families" Association (Stowarzyszenie „Rodzina Ponarska”).

Works

• various articles, mostly in Nasz Dziennik
  Nasz Dziennik
  Nasz Dziennik is a Polish daily newspaper, published in Warsaw since 1998 by Spes Ltd., with the circulation of about 150,000 as of 2007. Alternate sources have listed its 1999 circulation at 250,000; and its 1998 readership at 600,000...
  
  
• Ponary. Wileńska golgota, Sopot, 1993
• Wileńskie Łukiszki na tle wydarzeń lat wojny 1939-1944, 2003, self-published, ISBN 9788390645162
• Ponary i inne miejsca męczeństwa Polaków z Wileńszczyzny w latach 1941-1944 (Ponary and other places of matryrdom of Poles in Vilnius Region in the years 1941-1944), Łowicz, 2005.
• Ponary. Największe miejsce kaźni koło Wilna (1941-1944), Zarząd Ochrony i Konserwacji Zespołów Pałacowo-Ogrodowych, Warszawa, 1993, ISBN 83-8554-823-8