Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego
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- Jozef Lach (1905–1993)
awarded
Jozef Lach (1905–1993)
One night in October 1939, four men knocked on the door of Jozef and Žofia Lach’s home in Poprad, Slovakia. They came from the nearby Tatra Mountains, from occupied Poland.
- Julien Bryan
awarded
Julien Bryan
(1899–1974)On 16 September 1939, the Polish Radio broadcast the following appeal: “President Roosevelt and the people of America! I speak from the besieged city of Warsaw, Poland. My name is Bryan – Julien Bryan, American photographer.
- 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.
