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Władysław Bartoszewski, (born on 19 February 1922, died on 24 April 2015) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since April 1999 The Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. X/62/99 of 12 April 1999 A journalist, historian, social activist, diplomat, and politician. He was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp during one of the first transportations from Warsaw in September 1940. After his release, several months later, he gave an account of the situation in the camp to the...

Pope John Paul II, (Karol Józef Wojtyła, born 20 May 1920, died 2 April 2005) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since March 1996. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XXX/234/96 of 25 March 1996. Polish Roman-Catholic priest, Archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal, Pope, Servant of God of the Catholic Church, knight of the Order of the White Eagle. A poet and polyglot, as well as actor, playwright and educator. Philosopher of history, phenomenologist, mystic, representative...

Kazimierz Leski, (born 21 June 1912, died 27 May 2000) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from 1995. Resolution of the Council of Capital City of Warsaw No. XVIII/101/1995 of 10 April 1995. AK (Home Army) soldier, machine and warship construction engineer, inventor. Born in Warsaw, he graduated from the Władysław IV Secondary School No. 8, the Warsaw Institute of Technology and the Delft Institute of Technology in the Netherlands. At the beginning of World War II, as a pilot of the Lublin R-XVII F...

Stanisław Jankowski „Agaton” (born 29 September 1911 - died 5 March 2002) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from April 1995 Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XVIII/101/95 of 10 April 1995 Polish officer, architect, aide-de-camp of the general Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski. Born in Warsaw, a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology. In September 1939, he was called up to an artillery camp in Vilnius. He was interned to Lithuania, from where...

Juliusz Wiktor Gomulicki, (born 17 October 1909, died 8 July 2006) An Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since April 1994- he did not agree to accept the title. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. LXII/366/1994 from 28/03/1994. A Warsaw-expert, literature historian, editor, essayist, the most outstanding expert on the works of Cyprian Kamil Norwid. He studied law at Warsaw Univeristy and at the Academy of Political Sciences. Love for his home city – Warsaw – and for books was...

Margaret Susan (Sue) Ryder, (born 3 July 1923 – died 2 October 2000) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from April 1993. The Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XLII/244/93 of 1 March 1993. A charity activist. During World War II she belonged to the FANNY organisation - the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and to the Polish unit of secret sabotage services. Already by wartime she had established an international foundation for helping the victims of military actions. Sue...

Jan Podoski, (born 2 January 1904, died 24 November 1998) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from April 1993. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XLIV/251/93 of 29 March 1993. Engineer of electric traction, Professor at Warsaw University of Technology, advocate of building the underground in Warsaw. He was a world-renowned specialist in the field of electric traction and municipal transport. He is considered to be the founder of the Polish school of planning of communication...

Jerzy Waldorff, (born May 4 in 1910 died December 29 in 1999) Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XXX/170/92 of April 13 1992. Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since April 1992. Polish writer, journalist, music critic and social activist. Born in Warsaw, he graduated in law from the University of Poznan and graduated from the Music Conservatory in Poznan. During the occupation, he worked in the Warsaw literary-musical underground. He was a columnist, editor and author of...

Zbigniew Porczyński, (born in 1919 – died in 2000) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since April 1992 Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XXX/169/92 of 13 April 1992 He was born a Varsovian. After receiving his maturity exam, he went to the military academy in Ostrów-Komorowo. During the September Campaign he served as a second lieutenant. He took an active part in the Armia Krajowa [Home Army] resistance movement during the German occupation period. After his release from...

Janina Porczyńska, (born in 1927 - died in 2009) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since April 1992 Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XLIV/251/93 of 13 April 1992 Born in 1972 in Białka Królewska near Lviv. In 1940 she and her family were deported to Siberia. Porczyńska graduated from high school in Rhodesia. In England, she studied sociology and fine arts. Together with her husband Zbigniew Porczyński, she created a rich collection of European painting and Western...