Barbara Nowakowska
In 1953, she opposed the change of the name of Katowice to Stalinogród. With Natalia Piekarska and Zofia Klimonda, students of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie High School in Chorzów, they prepared leaflets "Down with Stalinogród", "Commune is a plague", "Miners do not let sweat out of you". They borrowed a typewriter, and scattered them in means of transport and public places. After being detained and a trial in which the girls were beaten and intimidated, they were convicted on 8 June 1953. Barbara Galas was sentenced to four years in prison. The Supreme Court reduced the sentence to three years After serving half of her sentence, she was released on parole in October 1954.