Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego

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  • prof. Władysław Konopczyński (1880—1952)

    awarded

    prof. Władysław Konopczyński (1880—1952)

    After the Warsaw Uprising, among the crowds expelled from the burning city were the family of a Polish-Jewish historian, Ludwik Widerszal. Konopczyński offered shelter in Młynik until the end of the war.

  • Rudolf Haunschmied (1966)

    awarded

    Rudolf Haunschmied (1966)

    As a six-year-old boy growing up near Gusen, Rudolf Haunschmied learned that during the Second World War the village had been the location of a German Nazi concentration camp.

  • 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.