Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego

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  • Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches

    awarded

    Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches
    (1885–1954)

    In the first months of the Second World War, Bordeaux in southern France seemed like a safe place – deep behind the front, far from the border of the Third Reich.

  • Ann Jacques
    Photo of Anna Jacques: Ian Matheson Municipal Archives in Palmerston North.

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    Ann Jacques
    (1893–1994)

    Secretary of the Polish Army League in New Zealand, an organization that supported Polish soldiers during World War II. Together with her husband William, she supported, among other initiatives, the center for Polish orphans in Pahiatua.

  • Petro Hrudzewycz

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    Petro Hrudzewycz
    (1939–2022)

    When local Soviet functionaries told him to remove the cross from the grave of soldiers of the Polish Army, he refused. However Petro was punished for his resistance, each year he attends the commemoration of the battle known as the Polish Thermopylae.