Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego

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  • Niels Jørgensen
    Niels Jørgensen

    awarded

    Niels Jørgensen
    (1919–1974)

    Together with the Dahl brothers, he helped Polish prisoners of war. In the summer of 1942, they twice assisted Polish prisoners of war in making their way to Sweden.

  • 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.