Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego
See also
- gen. Lóránd Utassy (1897— 1974)
awarded
gen. Lóránd Utassy (1897— 1974)
Utassy denied the Gestapo access to the internment camps and refused to surrender Polish soldiers. He also participated in talks with the Red Cross, aiming to establish it as the representation of Poles who had found themselves on Hungarian soil.
- 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.
- Stefan Jan Ryniewicz (1903—1988)
awarded
Stefan Jan Ryniewicz (1903—1988)
He was the deputy to Aleksander Ładoś. Ryniewicz’s role was to provide diplomatic security to the whole operation.
