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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...