Heroine of the Polish-Bolshevik War: Teresa Grodzinska, the first woman to be awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari.
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Teresa Grodzinska was a Polish nurse who died heroically during the 1920 Polish-Bolshevik war, and was posthumously awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari. She came from a landowning Grodzinski family and was active in the scouts. She died defending herself against the Bolsheviks.

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