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.

  • Anastasija Koreń (1908–1967) Mykoła Koreń (1905–1944)

    awarded

    Anastasija Koreń (1908–1967) Mykoła Koreń (1905–1944)

    On the evening of 15 July, Mykola’s brother-in-law appeared at the Korens’ doorstep, accompanied by four children of their neighbors, the Adamowiczs: nine-year-old Teresa, five-year-old Janusz, three-year-old Stasia and one-and-a-half-year-old Henio.

  • Rudolf Haunschmied (1966)

    awarded

    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.