User:Polish.class.project.111/sandbox

This article already existed. I am going to indicate where I annotated, added text, or added citations.

INTRODUCTION PART

I added a citation for the first sentence to indicate her birth information. I also added citations linking to the actual Polish government document that gave her the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and to an obituary describing her central role in Polish-American culture in New York.

EARLY LIFE

In the first paragraph of the "Early Life" section, I added a hyperlink to Wikipedia's Lviv article and added language with its various names. I cited a Wyborcza obituary to confirm her parents' names where there was no citation. The Wyborcza article is new to this Wikipedia page. I also added more information about her father's work in the mining industry. I added a new source from Biblioteka Narodowa to include that she graduated from secondary school in Krosno.

WAR YEARS

In the war years section, I specified when she began working for the Polish Embassy in London and added a citation for that fact. I linked to the Polish Embassy in London. I hyperlinked to the German invasion of Poland in 1939. I added that she specifically began working for the Polish Embassy in London in June 1940 and added a citation for that. I also added details about her beginning to work for the Świt radio station in 1942 and added citations that did not previously exist. In that sentence, I hyperlinked to Wikipedia pages on Bletchley and occupied Poland. I also added a Polish language citation for her work with Jan Karski and added a sentence with her role in preparing intelligence briefs and typescripts from them. I added a quote about her work with Karski: "In a biography of Jan Karski entitled "Inferno," Waldemar Piasecki wrote that "with [Stocker's] language and professional qualifications, she was an invaluable acquisition."" I added information about her work in organizing Sikorski's funeral: "In July 1943, when General Sikorski died in a plane crash after a takeoff from Gibraltar, Stocker assisted in arranging his funeral arrangements."

I also added that she was given the rank of second lieutenant in the Polish army. I added information about her work in Frankfurt: "She largely debriefed Polish former prisoners of war as well as concentration camp inmates who had been victims of medical experiments during World War II."

Added: "In April 1942, she was appointed to be the secretary of Władysław Anders for the duration of his stay in London.

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Added: "She also helped arrange the trips of specialized Polish soldiers who -- after training in Scotland -- were parachuted into occupied Poland to join the ranks of the Polish Home Army.

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Added from an unused Polish-language source: "She took care of female prisoners who were subjected to inhuman medical experiments run by Nazis. "

Added: "She served in the American-run part of Frankfurt from 1945-1946, where she met people to help get her mother from Poland to Germany, which was illegal." with a citation

I also reorganized the war years section because it was poorly organized.

LATER LIFE:

In the later life section, I corrected the year in which Stocker and her mother emigrated to the United States (1946) and added a citation for that. I added information about how Walentyna and Aleksander met as well as a citation: "They met in London after he escaped German captivity."

I added a citation for her and her husband running a bookstore.

I added information about who visited Walentyna and Aleksander Janta-Połczyńska at their home in Elmhurst, hyperlinked these people's Wikipedia articles, and added a citation from a Polish paper to support this (people added: Jerzy Giedroyc, Jan Karski, Marek Hłasko, Mahatma Gandhi, Karol Szymanowski).

Translated, summarized and added: "In 1958, Walentyna and Aleksander Janta-Połczyński assisted with a project that brought 35 former Polish prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp in Ravensbruck to the United States for mental health treatment for a period of six months. They helped solve problems that emerged as these former Polish concentration camp inmates sought mental health treatment in the United States, where they had not been before.

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I added: "Additionally, Ms. Janta-Połczyńska was active with the Kosciuszko Foundation -- the American Center of Polish Culture in Manhattan."

I also added everything that is not in italics: "After her husband's death in 1974, Janta-Połczyńska started to look for a place where their archive could be compiled. In 1993, she began talking to representatives of the National Library of Poland. Shortly thereafter, she donated much of their collections of maps, manuscripts, prints and historical documents to the Manuscript Department at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw.  Initially, this archive was only reserved for Dr. Franciszek Palowski, who was a researcher and expert in Aleksander Janta's work as well as a family friend. In 1998, the National Library began organizing and repacking the archive. During that time period, Walentyna Janta-Połczyński continued to supplement her initial gift with new materials. " I added a citation to support that, which came from a document from Biblioteka Narodowa, which I translated.