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.

  • Aleksander Ładoś (1891-1963)

    awarded

    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.

  • Erling Berg
    Erling Berg

    awarded

    Erling Berg
    (1921–1987)

    In late July and early August 1944, in a mountainous region, together with Leif Myklebust, they came to the aid of Michał Nowacki, a Polish escapee from the German camp in Fauske.