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W piątek 8 września 2023 r. odbyła się uroczystość z okazji 84. rocznicy obrony Warszawy. W wydarzeniu udział wziął radny Paweł Lech.

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Juliusz Kulesza Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 6th July 2023. Home Army soldier, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, graphic designer, historian and football enthusiast. A faithful fan of the Polonia Warszawa team since before the war. He received a solid pre-war education imbued with a patriotic spirit. Throughout his life he has been associated with the Polish Security Printing Works. His father worked there, and he not only served his apprenticeship there, but also persevered in...

Janusz Dorosiewicz Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 6th July 2023 Architect, film producer, social activist. From 1992 to 1998 he was a director of the Central Military Sports Club Legia (CWKS). In 1966 he moved to Canada and then to the United States. He returned to Poland after the political changes, in 1991. In the 1990s, he was the director of the Polish Tennis Association. Mr Janusz Dorosiewicz's activities are perfectly in line with one of the most important tasks of local...

Vitaly Vladimirovich Klichko Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 9th June 2022 Ukrainian boxer, heavyweight world champion. Mayor of Kiev, Warsaw partner city. He was born in Byelovodskoye, in what is now Kyrgystan. He studied Physical Education at the University of Kiev, where he received a PhD in February 2000. His boxing career started with early kick-boxing trainings. During his amateur career, he often trained at the Warsaw Academy of Physical Education. In 1996 he began a professional...

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 9th June 2022 Economist, doctor of law, politician. She was born in Warsaw. She is a daughter of an insurgent who took part in the Warsaw Uprising. In 1980, she co-created the structures of NSZZ "Solidarność" at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. After the parliamentary elections of 1989, she held the position of an expert on administration, economy and banking law for both chambers of the...

Prof. Andrzej Rzepliński Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 10th June 2021 Born on 26 November 1949 in Ciechanów. In 1971 graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw, and then became an articled clerk at the County Prosecutor’s Office in Garwolin. Obtained a PhD in Criminology in 1978 and a post-doctoral degree in 1990. Full Professor since 2000. His professional career was associated with the University of Warsaw, where he became the head of the Department of...

Jolanta Brzeska Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 10th June 2021 Born on 25 January 1947 in Warsaw. Social activist and co-founder of the Warsaw Tenants’ Association. In 2006 by a restitution of property decision, the townhouse at 9 Nabielaka St., which was home to Jolanta Brzeska, became property of new owners, and the attorney representing the former owners’ heirs terminated her tenancy agreement. From then on stalking, rent charge increases and property seizure attempts began. In 2007...

prof. Wiesław Wysocki Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Born in 1950 in Łowicz. Went to the Defenders of Hel 5th General Secondary School in Gdańsk. Graduated in history from the Catholic University of Lublin, specialising in the History of the Church, and Polish Philology at the University of Łódź. Completed his doctoral studies in 1981 at the Academy of Catholic Theology (today Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University) and also obtained a postdoctoral degree. Became...

prof. Andrzej Rottermund Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Born in 1941 in Warsaw. Graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1964, where he obtained his doctoral and postdoctoral degrees, and in 1990 was conferred the title of Professor of Humanities. Author of over 100 books, articles and essays, mainly concerning 18th and 19th century art. Specialises in early-modern and 19th century art and culture, links between art and courtly ceremonies, the works of Bernardo...

Prof. Wojciech Noszczyk Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Scientist, Full Professor of Medicine, surgeon. Born in 1935 in Warsaw. His father Henryk Noszczyk, Officer of the Polish Army and associate professor at the Surgery Clinic of the University of Warsaw, died in Katyń. Graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw in 1960. After a residency in the City Hospital at Kasprzaka St. began work at the 4th Surgery Clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw. In...

prof. Władysław Findeisen Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Born in 1926 in Poznań. In 1944, under secret schooling, he passed his Matura exam in the Stanisław Staszic General Secondary School in Warsaw and joined the Home Army. Took part in the Warsaw Uprising, fighting in the Śródmieście and Mokotów Districts. Captured and taken to a stalag and returned to Poland in 1945. That year he began his studies at the Faculty of Telecommunications of the Warsaw University...

Olga Tokarczuk Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 18th June 2020 Born in 1962 in Sulechów. She graduated in psychology from the University of Warsaw. Author of novels The Journey of the Book People (1993), E.E. (1995), Primeval & Other Times (1996), House of Day, House of Night (1998), Final Stories (2004), Anna In in the Tombs of the World (2006), Flights (2007), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009), The Books of Jacob (2014), short story collections The Wardrobe (1998)...

Herbert Clark Hoover, (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. from November 1921. American politician, U.S. President, Republican Party activist. The well-known humanitarian activist for many years helped Poland after it regained independence. He became famous as an organiser of aid to civilians during the First World War. Until July 1919 the American Relief Administration, led by him, provided food assistance for 10 million people,...

Mr Paweł Pawlikowski Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 30th May 2019 He wrote and directed Ida (2013), the first Polish film to win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He teaches at the National Film School in the UK and the Wajda Film School in Warsaw. He began his directorial career with documentaries, making several important films (including ones commissioned by the BBC), for which he received an Emmy International, Prix Italia and dozens of other awards. He considers...

Mr Jerzy Majkowski Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 30th May 2019 He started working for the Underground State in 1942 (Szare Szeregi [Grey Ranks], District Wola, Giermkowie Wolności , Troop IV, Squad III). He participated in the operations of the so called minor sabotage. On 2 August 1944, after the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, he joined “Anna” Company of the NOW-AK „Gustaw” Battalion in Wola District and assumed the pseudonym of “Czarny”. He fought in the battles on Wolska St. and...

Ms Halina Jędrzejewska Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 30th May 2019 In the Underground she was known under the pseudonym of Sławka, a front-line nurse during the Warsaw Uprising, later a doctor, and a veteran activist. She graduated from the Juliusz Słowacki Secondary School in Warsaw and passed the secondary school leaving exam in July 1944 under the underground education framework. She started working for the Underground State in July 1940 when she joined the 3. Czerwona Warszawska...

Wojciech Roszkowski (born on 20 June 1947 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 7 June 2018 A politician, economist and scholar specialising in contemporary history, economic history and political sciences. In 1965 he graduated from the King Władysław IV General Secondary School No. 8 in Warsaw, and in 1971 he completed studies at the Faculty of Foreign Trade of the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw. In 1978 he defended his PhD dissertation, and in 1987 received a...

Anna Przedpełska-Trzeciakowska (born on 5 July 1927 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 7 June 2018 A translator of American and British literature. She graduated from the Cecylia Plater-Zyberkówna Private Girls’ School and completed English language studies the University of Warsaw. She was a medic during the During the Warsaw Uprising (alias Grodzka). After the War she worked at the English editorial office of the “Czytelnik” Publishing Cooperative. She was an active member of...

Janina Maria Ochojska (born on 12 March 1955 in Gdańsk) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 7 June 2018 A humanitarian activist, the founder of the Polish Humanitarian Action, an astronomer. She graduated from General Secondary School No. 1 in Zabrze. In 1980 she completed her studies in the field of astronomy at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Until 1984 she worked at the Department of Astrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the Astronomical Centre in Toruń. Since the...

Anna Jakubowska alias Paulinka (born on 26 May 1927 in Warsaw, died 13 July 2022 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 7 June 2018 A combatant and social activist, an insurgent in the Warsaw Uprising. During World War II she was a member of the resistance, first in the PET organisation, and later as a messenger and medic in the shock troops transformed into the “Zośka” Battalion of the Home Army. She fought in the Warsaw Uprising in the “Zośka” Battalion, the “Maciek” company,...

Marian Turski Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 1 March 2018 He was born in 1926 in Druskieniki as Mosze Turbowicz. He was 14 years old when he found himself in the Łódź Ghetto, where he worked for the Lewica Związkowa (Trade Unions’ Left) underground organisation. He was taken away to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in one of the last transports in 1944. There, the Germans murdered his father and brother. In 1945, he survived two death marches: from Auschwitz to Buchenwald in January, and from...

Krystyna Budnicka Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 1 March 2018 She was born in 1932 in Warsaw as Hena Kuczer. During World War II she lived in the Warsaw Ghetto from its establishment to September 1943. In July 1942, some members of her family were taken away to the camp in Treblinka. Her brothers were members of the Jewish Combat Organisation and fought during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. During the Uprising and after its fall, Ms Budnicka was hiding together with her parents and some...

Halina Birenbaum Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 1 March 2018 She was born in 1929 in Warsaw. During World War II she lived in the Warsaw Ghetto from its establishment to mid-May 1943. Some of her family members died during the displacement operations of 1942. During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising she was hiding together with her mother and her brother’s wife in the bunker at 3 Miła Street. Later, she was held in concentration camps in Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrück and...

Daniel Olbrychski (born on 27 February 1945 in Łowicz) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 8 June 2017 A stage and screen actor, born on 27 February 1945 in Łowicz. In 1963 he graduated from Stefan Batory Secondary School in Warsaw and in 1971 passed an external examination at the PWST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Warsaw. He has cooperated on many occasions with such directors as Andrzej Wajda, Kazimierz Kutz, Krzysztof Zanussi, Jerzy Hoffman and Krzysztof Kieślowski. In his exceptionally...

Wiesław Johann (born on 9 September 1939 in Ashmyany) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 8 June 2017 Lawyer, journalist, university teacher, judge emeritus of the Constitutional Tribunal. He was born on 9 September 1939 in Ashmyany. Since 1945, he has lived in Warsaw, where he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw. He started his professional career by filling a position in the city centre Prosecutor’s Office, and later moved on to working as a legal advisor in craftsman...

Wanda Traczyk-Stawska (born on 7 April 1927 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 8 June 2017 Wanda Traczyk-Stawska AKA “Pączek” or “Atma”, born on 7 April 1927 in Warsaw, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, member of the Social Committee for Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery. From 1942, she was actively involved with the resistance movement against German occupation. As a member of the Gray Ranks, from 1943, as part of Operation N, she delivered death penalty letters to people sentenced to...

prof. Adam Justyn Strzembosz (born on 11 September 1930 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since 16 June 2016 Lawyer, judge, professor of legal sciences, Vice Minister of Justice (1989 – 1990), the first President of the Supreme Court, and the Head of the State Tribunal (1990 – 1998); Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. He passed his secondary-school-leaving exams in 1949, after which he started a two-degree law course at the Jagiellonian University. He obtained a Master’s degree at...

Andrzej Wajda (born 6 March 1926 in Suwałki, died 9 October 2016) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since June 2015 Film, theatre and television director, set designer, screenwriter, educator. A senator of the Republic of Poland in the years 1989-1991. Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. From 1946 to 1949 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 1953 he graduated from the Directing Department at the National Film School in Łódź. Two years later he made his cinema debut with the...

Professor Henryk Samsonowicz (born 23 January 1930 in Warsaw, died 28 May 2021 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of the Capital City of Warsaw from June 2015 Historian, medievalist, professor and rector of the University of Warsaw, minister of national education in the years 1989-1991.In 1950, he graduated from the Faculty of Humanistic Studies at the University of Warsaw, after which he began working there as an assistant. In 1954, he received a PhD for a thesis written under the supervision of...