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Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski – retired Air Vice-Marshal, pseudonym "Butterfly," (born 1917, died 2018) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since June 2008. Born on 10 March 1917 in Browki, Ukraine. After Kiev was captured by the Polish Army, he returned to Poland with his family. On passing his Matura exam he joined the Aviation Cadet School, from which he graduated with flying colours in 1939. He served under the 1st Aviation Regiment based at Warsaw’s Okęcie airport, which on 6 September 1939 was...

Symcha Ratajzer-Rotem, (born in 1924) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from April 2008. A fighter in the Jewish Combat Organisation (ŻOB), one of the few who managed to survive the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the fall of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto he was the main messenger of the Jewish Combat Organisation on the Aryan side. In the time of the uprising he fought in the military group of Henoch Gutman. On the 29th of April 1943, by order of the commander of the uprising, he left the ghetto...

Irena Sendlerowa, (1910 - 2008) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2007. Irena Sendler, maiden name Krzyżanowska, (born February 15, 1910 – died May 12, 2008), a Polish social activist, Righteous Among the Nations, awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Poland Reborn, Jan Karski Award "For Courage and Heart." She was born in Warsaw. During the war she worked in the municipal social welfare center. She helped the Jews long before the founding of...

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...