prof. Władysław Konopczyński (1880—1952) - Instytut Pileckiego
prof. Władysław Konopczyński (1880—1952)
Awarded in 2019.

After the Warsaw Uprising, among the crowds expelled from the burning city were the family of a Polish-Jewish historian, Ludwik Widerszal. Konopczyński offered shelter in Młynik until the end of the war.
Before the Second World War, Władysław Konopczyński lectured at the Jagiellonian University. A prominent historian specializing in the modern period, author of Polski Słownik Biograficzny [Polish Biographical Dictionary], and MP of the Polish Parliament (I term), he was arrested on 6 November 1939 during the Intelligenzaktion — a German operation aimed at killing the Polish intelligentsia. He was imprisoned in Kraków, then Wrocław, and finally KL Sachsenhausen until February 1940. Released from the camp, he engaged in clandestine teaching. His family’s difficult financial situation in occupied Kraków caused him to spend much of his time on the estate in Młynik near Ojców.

In 1948, the communist authorities removed Konopczyński from the Jagiellonian University and a year later forced him to resign as the chief editor of Polski Słownik Biograficzny.
fot. Jan Mrozowski’s private collection
See also
- Oksana Karpiuk (1892-?)
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Oksana Karpiuk (1892-?)
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- Ilona Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka
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Ilona Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka
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- Rudolf Haunschmied (1966)
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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.