Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego

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  • Klára Andrássy Odescalchi
    Photo at the top of the page: from Marek Odescalchi's private archive

    awarded

    Klára Andrássy Odescalchi
    (1898–1941)

    Hungarian aristocrat, social activist, and friend of Poland. Following the outbreak of World War II, she was actively involved in assisting thousands of Poles, providing them with shelter, food, and support in their further evacuation.

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  • Lorna Bale
    Lorna Bale (Photo: Bale family private archive)

    awarded

    Lorna Bale
    (1896–1978)

    President of the Polish Army League in New Zealand. During World War II, she actively engaged in helping Polish soldiers and children.

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  • Petro Hrudzewycz

    awarded

    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.

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