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Hilary Koprowski, (born in 1916 - died 2013) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2007. Professor Hilary Koprowski, born on 5 December 1916 in Warsaw, Polish virologist and immunologist, and medical doctor. Creator of the first vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis. In 1959, he launched the campaign to provide 9 million doses of this vaccine to Poland. He has been living in the U.S. for many years, and has published over 850 scientific papers. He is the founder of the "Koprowski” Foundation,...

Czesław Cywiński, (born 1926 - died 2010) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2007. Lieutenant Colonel Czesław Cywinski - alias “Skowronek” (Skylark), “Ryszard” - was born on 10 March 1926 in Vilnius. He had already started underground activities as a middle-school student, joining the Association of Free Poles, in which he served as an intelligence officer. From autumn 1942 he was a soldier in the Armia Krajowa (Home Army). For over 20 years he continuously chaired, initially the...

Janusz Brochwicz-Lewiński, (born in 1920, died in 2017) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2007 Colonel Janusz Brochwicz – Brochwicz alias Griffin, born on September 17, 1920, in Volkovysk in Grodno- Army soldier in the Warsaw Uprising, fought in the battalion "Parasol". In 1939 he partook in the September Campaign. He was arrested by the Bolsheviks near Grodno and sentenced to death. He was with a group of convicts on a train to the East, yet he managed to escape. After several months of...

Lech Wałęsa (born 1943) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2007 Mr. Lech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943 in Popowo) politician, President of the Republic of Poland, leader of the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union “Solidarity” (Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy, NSZZ Solidarność), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. From 1967 a ship’s electrician at Gdańsk Shipyard. In April 1976 dismissed on disciplinary grounds for trying to organise the observing of the anniversary related to the...

Wiesław Chrzanowski, (born in 1923 - died in 2012) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2007 Professor Wiesław Chrzanowski – born on 20 December 1923 in Warsaw – soldier of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) who fought in the Warsaw Uprising, politician, member of the Christian National Union (ZChN), Member of Parliament (first term), Minister of Justice and Attorney General in 1991, Marshal of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland, senator (fourth term). He graduated from the Faculty of Law at...

Barbara Wachowicz, (born 18 May 1937) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since June 2006. Council Resolution of the City of Warsaw of 13 June 2006. A Polish writer, literary historian, author of biographies of Great Poles, photographer, screenwriter. A graduate journalism at Warsaw University and in the Study of History and Film Theory at the Polish National Film School (PWSF) in Łódź. She is a writer who promotes Polish patriotism, the attitude of honour and integrity. The author of fascinating...

Zofia Korbońska, (born 10.05.1915, died 16.08.2010) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from June 2006. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. LXXVI/2331/ 2006 of 13 June 2006. Widow of the late Stefan Korboński, she was the closest collaborator of her husband – one of the founders of the Polish Underground State. She graduated from the Maria Konopnicka Lower Secondary School in Warsaw and the Political Science School in Warsaw. In 1941 she co-organised the launching of a secret...

Prelate Wacław Karłowicz (born 15 September 1907, died 8 December 2007) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from June 2006 Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. LXXVI/2331/ 2006 of 13 June 2006 Nickname: ks. Andrzej Bobola - Polish catholic priest, at the moment of his death – the oldest Chaplain Priest of the Warsaw Uprising, head of the Chaplains of Fighting Poland, Prelate, Papal Chamberlain, Curator of National Remembrance, was given priestly ordination on 31 January 1932...

Prof. Norman Davies, (born on 8 June 1939) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since June 2005. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. LV/1476/2005 of 16 June 2005. British historian of Welsh descent, Professor at the University of London, author of works on the subject of history of Europe, Poland and the British Isles. He studied history at the University of Oxford, in Grenoble, Perugia and at the University of Sussex. He got a Ph.D. in 1973 from the Jagiellonian University,...

Szymon Szurmiej, (born 18 June 1923, died July 2014) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since July 2004. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XXXII/723/2004 of 1 July 2004. Polish actor, director, and activist of the Jewish community, the general and artistic director of the Ester Rachel Kamińska and Ida Kamińska Jewish Theatre in Warsaw. He began his own artistic work as a director and actor in 1951 in Teatr Polski in Wrocław. In 1955 he became the artistic manager of the...