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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...

Archbishop Kazimierz Romaniuk, (born 21 August 1927) 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. A Polish Roman Catholic bishop, Auxiliary Bishop of Warsaw in the years 1982-1992, Diocesan Bishop of Warsaw- Praga in 1992-2004, since 2004 Senior Bishop of the Diocese of Warsaw-Praga, a Professor of biblical teachings. He was ordained priest on 16 December 1951 in Warsaw by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. He...

Jerzy Majewski, (born on 10 December 1925, died on 24 April) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since July 2004. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XXX/170/92 of 1 July 2004 Engineer and politician. Thirty-eighth president of Warsaw from 29 December 1967 to 9 December 1973, and the thirty-ninth president of Warsaw from 13 December 1973 to 18 February 1982. A graduate of Warsaw University of Technology. Since 29 December 1967 to 9 December 1973 he was the chairman of the...

Archbishop Kazimierz Majdański, (born 1 March 1916, died 29 April 2007) 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 A Polish Roman Catholic priest, Bishop of Szczecin-Kamień, Archbishop, theologian. In the years 1934-1939 he studied philosophy and theology at the Seminary in Włocławek. On 7 November 1939, as an alumnus of the sixth grade, he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in concentration...

Professor Marek Kwiatkowski, (born 25 April 1930, died 10 August 2016) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since July 2003. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XIV/174/2003 of 3 July 2003. Polish art historian, museologist, and varsavianist. He was born in Caen, France, but was educated in Warsaw. He is an author of numerous books and publications, including fifteen books on Warsaw and Polish art. He is credited for organising many exhibitions and museum exhibits and for...

Fr. Monsignor Zdzisław Jastrzębiec Peszkowski, Jastrzębiec coat of arms (born 23 July 1918, died 8 October 2007) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from July 2003 Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw XIV/174/2003 of 3 July 2003 A Roman Catholic priest, doctor of philosophy, John Paul II’s chaplain, chaplain for the “Katyń Families Association” and murdered in the East, scoutmaster and Chief Chaplain for ZHP (the Polish Scouting Association), honorary patron of the ZHP district of...

Jan Nowak Jeziorański, (born 2 October 1914, died 20 January 2005) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since July 2003. Resolution No. XIV/174/2003 of the Warsaw City Council of July, 2003. Born to a family with a tradition of supporting Poland’s independence. After graduating from high school in the Adam Mickiewicz Capital Gymnasium, he studied economics at the University of Poznań. He partook in the September Campaign in 1939, then worked in the Union of Armed Struggle. He was incorporated into...

Marek Edelman, (born 1 January 1922 - died 2 October 2009) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from April 2001. Resolution of the Warsaw City Council No. XXXII/435/ 2001 of 9 April 2001. A political and social activist, a cardiologist. During WW II a member of the Public Jewish Workers Association, one of the founders of the Jewish Military Organisation. In 1943, he participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and after the death of Mordechaj Anielewicz he became the last leader of fighters of the...

Cardinal Józef Glemp, (born 18 December 1929, died 23 January 2013) Honorary citizen of Warsaw since 6 April 2000 Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XXI/221/2000 from 06/04/2000 A Catholic Cleric, Archbishop of Warsaw, senior Primate of Poland, Presbyter Cardinal. After his maturity exam (Polish: matura) he entered the The Archbishop's Ecclesiastical Seminary in Gniezno. He was ordained to the priesthood on 25 May 1956. In the years 1972-1979, as assistant to...

Stefan Starzyński (born 19 August 1893, died 17 October 1943) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from 20 September 1999 Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XV/116/99 of 20 September 1999 A Polish officer, politician, economist, journalist, in the years 1934-1939 Mayor of Warsaw. He was born in Warsaw. During World War I he fought in the Polish Legions, and the Polish Military Organization. In the years 1927 - 1932 he was a director of the department and a deputy minister of...

Major General Franciszek Kamiński, (born 20 September 1902, died 24 February 2000) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from April 1999 Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. X/64/99 of 12 April 1999 In the 20’s he studied at Warsaw University. In 1933, he headed the Polish Academic People’s Youth (Polska Akademicka Młodzież Ludowa). From the beginning of the German occupation he operated in the “Polish Victory Service” (Służba Zwycięstwu Polski). In 1940, after the establishment...

W szpitalu dziecięcym przy ul. Kopernika została wprowadzona Polityka Ochrony Dziecka, która ma zapewnić bezpieczne środowisko dla młodych pacjentów. 23 sierpnia 2023 r. Magdalena Roguska, wiceprzewodnicząca Rady m.st. Warszawy oraz Paweł Lech, przewodniczący Komisji Zdrowia Rady m.st. Warszawy, wzięli udział w konferencji zorganizowanej w placówce.

Ryszard Kaczorowski, (born 26 November 1919 – died 10 April 2010) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since April 1999. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No X/63/99 of 12 April 1999. Polish politician, social activist, and scout. He became a head of the Białystok chapter of the Szare Szeregi (Grey Ranks). In July 1940 he was arrested by the NKWD [Ludowy Komisariat Spraw Wewnętrznych ZSRR- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs], and imprisoned in Białystok and Mińsk. He was...

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...