The park around the Słoneczne lake on Gumieńka has its patron since 2021. By the decision of city councilors in Szczecin, the park is called Adina Blady-Szwajger. Adina Blady-Szwajger, pediatrician; after graduating from high school in 1934, she began studies at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Warsaw; In 1939, during the defense of Warsaw, it ran a dressing point; from March 11, 1940, she worked at the Children's Hospital of Bersohnów and Baumanów at ul. Sienna; this hospital became part of the ghetto; she took care of children with tuberculosis, typhus and hunger, trying to save their lives; from the autumn of 1941, she worked in the branch of the hospital at ul. Leszno arranged in a former school; she stayed with her little patients until the end. She cooperated with the Jewish Combat Organization as a liaison, organizing escapes of people from the ghetto and smuggling of weapons. She also worked in a day-room for children run by the Central Welfare Council at Salesian Fathers in Powiśle; at the time of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, she reported to work in a field hospital at ul. Miodowa. Her courage and heroism were an example to others. On August 29, she walked through the sewers from the Old Town to Śródmieście and here, until the end of the Uprising, she worked in the hospital at ul. Mokotowska. In January 1945, she started working in the Central Committee of Polish Jews as a clerk for children and a pediatrician. Its mission at that time was to find children in shelters and hiding places, to try to save the sick and starving, survivors of extermination. Always involved in the fight for the health and mental condition of all little patients. From 1960 she moved to Szczecin; she ran an anti-tuberculosis clinic and an anti-tuberculosis sanatorium for children in a building at ul. Moniuszki 20. She was the first to start a school education program for children undergoing long-term treatment. She treated all those in need selflessly at any time of the day or night. She died on February 19, 1993 in Łódź.
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