Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego

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  • Hans Dahl (1917–2007) Adolf Dahl (1913–2007)
    Pictured are brothers Alfons and Hans Dahl. Source: Ole Petter Dahl's private archive

    awarded

    Hans Dahl (1917–2007) Adolf Dahl (1913–2007)

    Brothers who twice helped Polish prisoners of war who had escaped from camps in their attempts to reach Sweden.

  • 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”

  • Jenő Etter (1889–1973)

    awarded

    Jenő Etter (1889–1973)

    The mayor of the Hungarian city of Esztergom received dozens of letters written in Polish. The greeting lines themselves showed the sympathy and gratefulness of the Polish refugees: “Dear Captain!”, “Dear Doctor!”. Jenő Etter understood them all.