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Today is a special holiday – Mother's Day. There's no way not to mention the celebrations of this day at the Polish Red Cross over the last 100 years. "Mother's Day" was one of the most important holidays celebrated by the youth of the Polish Red Cross during the interwar period.

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After the establishment of the Polish Red Cross Society, 4 large Regional Committees were created: Lesser Poland, Greater Poland, South-Eastern, and Polesie-Minsk, with main centers in Krakow, Lviv, Poznań, and Warsaw. The creation of these regions was recorded in the first Statute of the PTCK from 1919.

After the Red Army entered Polish territory, thousands of Polish soldiers and representatives of the intelligentsia were taken into Soviet captivity. The NKVD placed them in special camps, having previously organized a selection for officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates.

During the interwar period, the Polish Red Cross held a privileged position in the state, benefiting from the provisions of the law granting it donations from the sale of tickets for various types of shows, performances, concerts, spectacles, competitions, etc.

The originator and initiator of the "Red Rose" Rallies was Kazimierz Nowak, a longtime President of the HDK PCK Club operating at the Krakow steelworks. The first meeting was organized in 1977 in Tenczynek and was called the I Gathering of the "Red Rose".

&#8222;Let the Red Cross not be red like an unhealed wound, but let it adorn the red of a heart that loves its neighbor and brings him active help&#8221; -&nbsp;Gen. Józef Haller, 1919

During the interwar period, the Polish Red Cross began its celebrations on June 1st, and there was also a time when the Red Cross Week started on May 26th, on Mother's Day (probably related to the cult of the mother of Józef Piłsudski).

Available historical sources show that the PCK Week was already celebrated by the Galician Red Cross Society led by Father Paweł Sapieha. The tradition was borrowed from the celebrations of the Austrian Red Cross.

Since the beginning, the badges have been issued by the Polish Red Cross, as stated on the certificate "In recognition of the most beautiful humanitarian gift – the selfless donation of blood" and this has not changed over the years.

In 1935, the Polish Red Cross began organized activities for blood transfusion, including the organization of courses for doctors and the promotion of blood donation. The first Blood Transfusion Institute in Poland was also established.

The PCK during the Second World War was engaged on a large scale in organizing aid for the civilian population, while simultaneously dealing with many difficulties, mainly financial and harassment from the German authorities.

Despite the expansion of the health center network by the state and local governments, as well as the Social Insurance Institution, residents of the villages acutely felt the lack of medical care. The idea of creating health centers in the villages was proposed by Countess Maria Tarnowska, Vice President of the Polish Red Cross, who was a trained nurse.

In 1934, the Legionnaires' Association was founded in Kraków and took the initiative to create a commemorative mound, which serves as a monument to the struggles for Independence. At the head of the Committee for the Construction of the Mound, established in Warsaw, was Walery Sławek.

As of August 1, 1919, the organizational structure changed and 4 Regional Committees were already functioning: Lesser Poland, Greater Poland, South-Eastern, and Polesie-Minsk. Our organization as a whole will celebrate its 100th anniversary, however, the history and operational period of individual local branches differ.

The Florence Nightingale Medal was established by the ICRC and awarded on the hundredth anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth on May 12, 1920. The first Polish nurse to be awarded this medal was Countess Maria Tarnowska in 1923.

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At the PCK Nursing School in Warsaw, located at Smolna 6, a parachute training course was organized for the female students of the school in 1938. The curriculum included not only vocational subjects but also military-themed subjects.
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The event took place in Rozwadów near Stalowa Wola. A freshly graduated doctor, Eugeniusz Łazowski, was invited to the local Polish Red Cross hospital by Duchess Anna Lubomirska. Soon he called his colleague Stanisław Matulewicz to join him.

The organization of the Polish White Cross was established on February 2, 1918, in the United States during World War I. It was founded by Helena Paderewska, the wife of Ignacy Paderewski. The main goal was to provide assistance to the victims of the war.

This situation took place during World War II. In connection with the tragic events of the war, the authorities of the International Committee of the Red Cross made an unprecedented decision: for the first time, they agreed to break the rules that unquestionably apply to national associations of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.

The first time such a proposal was made was on August 5, 1915, by the Polish Committee for Sanitary Aid, which wanted to be recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross as a national association in the reborn Poland, presenting its activities in a comprehensive memorandum.

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