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After their mother was murdered by the [[Gestapo]] in [[Białystok]], together with her sister Wiesława, Danuta joined the [[Home Army]] in late 1943 or early 1944. As part of the underground army's training, she acquired medical skills.<ref name="TVP">{{cite web|url=http://ww2.tvp.pl/6232,20070104441453.strona|title=Strona główna - tvp.pl - Telewizja Polska S.A.|website=2.tvp.pl|access-date=15 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605230554/http://ww2.tvp.pl/6232,20070104441453.strona|archive-date=2008-06-05|url-status=dead}}</ref> After the [[Soviets]] took [[Białystok]] from the German [[Nazis]], she started work as a clerk in the forest inspectorate in [[Hajnówka]].<ref name="TVP"/>
 
Together with other employees of the inspectorate she was arrested in June 1945 by [[NKVD]] and [[Urząd Bezpieczeństwa|UB]] for collaboration with the [[Freedom and Independence|anticommunist underground]]. She was liberated from a prison transport convoy by a patrol of a [[Wilno]] group of ex-Home Army partisans commanded by Stanisław Wołonciej "Konus", a subordinate of [[Zygmunt Szendzielarz]], "Łupaszko", who were operating in the area. "Konus" took the freed prisoners to "Łupaszko"'s camp where some of them, including Danuta, joined his group. Subsequently, Siedzikówna served as a medical orderly in the "Konus" troop, and then in the squadron of lieutenant Jan Mazur, "Piast", and that of lieutenant Marian Płuciński, "Mścisław". For a short period, her superior was also lieutenant [[Leon Beynar]] "Nowina", deputy of "Łupaszko", later known as "Paweł Jasienica" - a notable Polish historian and writer. During this time Danuta assumed the pseudonym "Inka".<ref name="TVP"/>
 
The "Łupaszko" brigade was dissolved in September 1945 and Danuta went back to work in the forest inspectorate in [[Miłomłyn]] in [[Ostróda County]] under the name "Danuta Obuchowicz". However, the brigade was re-mobilized in response to Communist repressions in January 1946. In the early spring of 1946 Danuta came into contact with second lieutenant [[Zdzisław Badocha]] "Żelazny", the commander of one of [[Łupaszko]]'s squadrons. After "Żelazny"'s death, the new commander, second lieutenant [[Olgierd Christa]] "Leszek", ordered Danuta to travel to [[Gdańsk]] in order to collect medical supplies.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://kobieta.onet.pl/danuta-siedzikowna-pseudonim-inka-wspolczesna-idolka/zj1thz |title="Inka" wyklęta – współczesna idolka |access-date=7 March 2020}}</ref>
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