Recipients - Person - Instytut Pileckiego

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  • Jozef Lach (1905–1993)

    awarded

    Jozef Lach (1905–1993)

    One night in October 1939, four men knocked on the door of Jozef and Žofia Lach’s home in Poprad, Slovakia. They came from the nearby Tatra Mountains, from occupied Poland.

  • Svensson Bernacka Walborg

    awarded

    Svensson Bernacka Walborg
    (1921–2005)

    Her first contact with Poles dated back to the Second World War, when she was helping prisoners of the German labor camp in Sandnes, a city located less than 16 kilometers from Stavanger.

  • 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.