Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego
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- Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches
(1885–1954)In the first months of the Second World War, Bordeaux in southern France seemed like a safe place – deep behind the front, far from the border of the Third Reich.
- 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.
- Erzsébet Szápáry (1902-1980) Antal Szápáry (1905-1972)
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Erzsébet Szápáry (1902-1980) Antal Szápáry (1905-1972)
Erzsébet and Antal Szápáry came from a famous family of Hungarian aristocrats. Their mother, Maria Przeździecka, was a Pole, and this fact had a bearing on their involvement in relief activities for Polish refugees after 1939.
