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.

  • Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches

    awarded

    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.

  • 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”