Association of Youth Fight
Association of Youth Fight (Związek Walki Młodych): a communist youth organisation functioning as a part of PPS (Polish Workers’ Party); set up in Warsaw in January 1943. It operated as a fighting squad, carrying out attacks on Germans (in Café Club and Bar Podlaski in Warsaw), as well as rail transport diversion acts. It published a magazine Walka Młodych (Youth Fight). It functioned mainly in Warsaw, few groups were also in Łodź, Pabianice and Pińczów. The Warsaw group became a part of the Battalion Czwartaków in Armia Ludowa (People’s Army), which fought in the Warsaw Uprising. At the end of the war, there were a few hundreds of members in the organisation. After the reactivation in 1944 in liberated Lublin, it became a large-scale organisation. The members of ZWM conducted propaganda actions, organised voluntary community services, took part in the country restoration, organised referendum in 1946 and elections in 1947. In July 1948 ZWM joined the newly established Związek Młodzieży Polskiej (the Union of Polish Youth). The chairpersons of ZWM were: Hanka Szapiro-Sawicka, Jan Krasicki, Helena Jaworska, Aleksander Kowalski.