Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego

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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.

  • Maria Bazeluk (1903–1956)

    awarded

    Maria Bazeluk (1903–1956)

    During the Second World War, she was living with her husband Petro Bazeluk and their three children near the village of Buteiky. The German policy that sought to take advantage of the dislike of Ukrainians for Poles was beginning to bear bloody fruit.

  • Fedor Bojmistruk (1905-1978) Kateryna Bojmistruk (1909-2000)

    awarded

    Fedor Bojmistruk (1905-1978) Kateryna Bojmistruk (1909-2000)

    “I was crying in the barn, next to the corpses of two boys and an elderly man. I was holding a tiny piece of bread in one hand and a handkerchief with two letters in another. The letters were probably my initials. What were they? I don’t know”