Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego
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- Jan Jelínek (1912–2009)
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Jan Jelínek (1912–2009)
In 1937, the care of the Evangelical parish in Kupiczów, Volhynia was entrusted to Jan Jelínek. The young pastor won the hearts of the Czechs, who had settled there in the 19th century. In his sermons he preached love of neighbor regardless of his beliefs.
- Aleksander Ładoś (1891-1963)
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Aleksander Ładoś (1891-1963)
He was the leader of the group which issued illegal Latin American passports to persecuted Jews. Ładoś gave the group diplomatic protection.
- Rudolf Haunschmied (1966)
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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.
