Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego

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  • Oksana Karpiuk (1892-?)

    awarded

    Oksana Karpiuk (1892-?)

    Oksana found the children at nightfall. She hid not only the youngest members of the Polish family at her home, but also the elderly – the parents and the grandmother.

  • 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.

  • 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.