Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego

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

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    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.

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  • Oksana Karpiuk (1892-?)

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    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.

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  • Leif Myklebust
    Leif Myklebust

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    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.

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