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SPEAKER_04: of Poland's interwar period. She captured the adoration of the public with her outstanding style, intelligence, sportsmanship, and courage. The Womanican was a great character for the Polish people, and it was a great way to show her love for the Polish people. Sportsmanship and courage. Please welcome Halina Konopaska. Halina was born on February 28, 1900 in central Poland. Growing up in Warsaw, Halina excelled in many sports. She took up swimming, ice skating, tennis, horseback riding, and later skiing. When Halina was 18 years old, Poland gained its independence after 123 years of Russian rule. The country became known as the Second Polish Republic. As Halina entered her 20s, her ability to quickly master any sport shaped the course of her life. In 1926, she set her first world record in the discus throw after just a few months of training. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] This feat was followed by two more records in 1927 and 1928. Halina never lost a discus event for the entirety of her career. She also competed in the high jump, long jump, javelin, and pentathlon. It seemed there was nothing she couldn't do. Halina made her Olympic debut at the 9th Olympic Games held in Amsterdam in 1928. In a short Olympic Channel documentary, she said, The day of the discus throwing was July the 31st. After a cool, rainy morning, the timorous Dutch sun had broken through the fog and baked the green fields in gold. The stairs leading up from the dark labyrinths of the dressing rooms ushered me straight onto the field. Two red circles, throwing circles, were drawn on the grass, and two curved lines were marked in chalk. One at 35 meters, the other at 40 meters away. I had only one wish as I picked up the discus. Send it where the outermost distance of 40 meters was whitened with calcium. The discus dutifully obeyed. Stormy applause, thunderously stamping feet, compliments, questions, and film and photographic cameras snapping all merged into one great chaos. Just four years after picking up her first discus, Halina won the first gold medal for Poland. For a nation recently reborn, Halina became a symbol of Polish pride and success, not only for her skills, but also for her grace, beauty, and iconic red beret. The Polish president awarded her the Cross of Merit for her success in Amsterdam. Later in 1928, Halina married Colonel Ignacy Moduchevsky, a diplomat, military officer, and treasury minister. A little more than a decade later, World War II broke out, and the security of Poland's gold reserves were at stake. The nation's bank had started to accumulate gold reserves in the interwar period to stabilize the Polish currency. Within the first few days of the Second World War, it became clear that these reserves needed to be relocated. Halina's husband was tasked with moving them to safety. On September 7, 1939, the convoy moving the gold set out under the cover of darkness from Warsaw. The convoy was made up of ordinary buses and cars. Halina, now 39, was the last one in the last two days and the last one in the line. She would later recall, "'We headed south towards Romania on a black-blue night. The moon was red from being so close to Mars, a planet which, as we know, predicts horror, war, destruction, and death.'" Among the personal items she brought with her was the small gold disc she won for Poland in 1928, though she would later lose the medal. Still, she was successful in this new venture. The gold safely traveled from Romania to Istanbul to Beirut to the south of France to London and finally to New York. Halina then settled in France with her husband before moving to the United States in September of 1941. In her later years, she explored other talents. She became a poet, founded a ski school, designed clothes, and at the age of 60 went to art school and became a painter. Halina's life came to an end in Daytona Beach, Florida, on January 28, 1989. She was 88 years old. Her ashes were taken to Poland and were buried alongside her parents in Warsaw. All month, we're talking about Olympians. To get Womanica in your inbox, check out the Womanica Weekly Newsletter. Follow Encyclopedia Womanica on Facebook and Instagram at Encyclopedia Womanica. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator. Talk to you tomorrow. Before you go, I wanna tell you about another show I think you'll like. Push Black, the largest nonprofit black media outlet in America, has a podcast, Black History Year. Host Jay connects listeners to the stories, thinkers, and activists left out of mainstream conversations and politics. The things that happened in history still affect us today, and the actions taken today will go down in history. Jay and expert guests dive into a range of topics, including the systemic silencing of black women, black art as a means of liberation, the prison industrial complex, and more. Black History Year is available wherever you get your podcasts. Check it out.
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