Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego

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  • Ann Jacques
    Photo of Anna Jacques: Ian Matheson Municipal Archives in Palmerston North.

    awarded

    Ann Jacques
    (1893–1994)

    Secretary of the Polish Army League in New Zealand, an organization that supported Polish soldiers during World War II. Together with her husband William, she supported, among other initiatives, the center for Polish orphans in Pahiatua.

  • 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”

  • Leif Myklebust
    Leif Myklebust

    awarded

    Leif Myklebust
    (1918–1981)

    In late July and early August 1944, in a mountainous region, together with Erling Berg, they came to the aid of Michał Nowacki, a Polish escapee from the German camp in Fauske.