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Posiedzenie Komisji Ładu Przestrzennego Rady m.st. Warszawy odbędzie się w PKiN, piętro XX, sala 2018, 7 grudnia 2023 r. o godz. 9.00. porządek obrad i załączniki

Ogłoszenie w sprawie naboru uzupełniającego kandydatów na ławników sądów powszechnych na kadencję 2024-2027.

21 listopada 2023 roku odbyła się uroczysta gala mająca na celu ogłoszenie laureatki plebiscytu organizowanego przez Stolicę. Otrzymując statuetkę z rąk Rafała Trzaskowskiego, Prezydenta m.st. Warszawy, doktor Katarzyna Kasia oficjalnie została Warszawianką Roku!

Mariusz Krasuski rocznik 1961r. Studiował i ukończył Wydział Dziennikarstwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Od 1984r. zaangażowany w działania opozycji wolnościowej, m.in. aktywność III programu podziemnego „Radia Solidarność”. Ostatnia audycja nadana 9 czerwca 1989r. na ul. Mokotowskiej. W wolnej Polsce, współzałożyciel i pierwszy prezes Fundacji Pomoc Polakom na Wschodzie, Rzecznik prasowy Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i wykładowca na WDiNP. Pracował również jako doradca ministra szefa urzędu...

23 listopada odbyła się uroczystość odsłonięcia tablicy upamiętniającej ostatniego rabina warszawskiego getta, Kalonimusa Kalmana Szapirę. Tablica znajduję się na kamienicy przy ul. Dzielnej 5, w miejscu bliskim rabinowi.

Uprzejmie przypominamy, że do dnia 4 grudnia 2023 r. istnieje możliwość odebrania w kancelarii Biura Rady m.st. Warszawy (Pałac Kultury i Nauki, Plac Defilad 1, XX piętro, pok. 2009) dokumentów kandydatów na ławników sądów powszechnych złożonych w ramach naboru na kadencję 2024-2027. Po upływie tego terminu nieodebrane dokumenty zostaną komisyjnie zniszczone. W dniu 5 października 2023 r. podczas dokończenia LXXXVIII sesji Rady m.st. Warszawy radni dokonali wyboru ławników do Warszawskich...

Pracownik urzędu nadzorczego. Uczestniczy w pracach skoordynowanego nadzoru nad Wielkoskalowymi Systemami Informacyjnymi Unii Europejskiej. Okręg wyborczy nr 4, Wola Niezrzeszona Bezpieczeństwa i Porządku Publicznego Polityki Społecznej i Rodziny mjeda@radny.um.warszawa.pl Dyżur: spotkanie po wcześniejszym, telefonicznym umówieniu terminu za pośrednictwem Biura Rady m.st. Warszawy lub mailowym. Adres: Biuro Rady m.st. Warszawy, Pałac Kultury i Nauki, piętro XX, pokój radnych (2020). ...

16 listopada 2023 r. przed rozpoczęciem dokończenia LXXXVII Sesji Rady m.st. Warszawy odbyło się oficjalne pożegnanie radnej Doroty Łobody.

11 listopada to ważna data dla każdej Polki i Polaka. 105. lat temu nasza Ojczyzna odzyskała niepodległość.

16 listopada 2023 roku (czwartek) w PKiN, Sala Warszawska, p. IV, wejście od ul. Marszałkowskiej, odbędzie się XC posiedzenie Rady m.st. Warszawy. Rozpoczęcie planowane jest na godz. 11.00. porządek obrad – wersja do wydruku porządek obrad on-line Transmisja on-line: poprzez stronę YouTube Rady m.st. Warszawy poprzez stronę Biuletynu Informacji Publicznej m.st. Warszawy

16 listopada 2023 roku (czwartek) w PKiN, Sala Warszawska, p. IV, wejście od ul. Marszałkowskiej, odbędzie się dokończenie LXXXVII posiedzenia Rady m.st. Warszawy na wniosek 1/4 ustawowego składu Rady Miasta. Rozpoczęcie planowane jest na godz. 10.00. porządek obrad– wersja do wydruku porządek obrad on-line Transmisja on-line: poprzez stronę YouTube Rady m.st. Warszawy poprzez stronę Biuletynu Informacji Publicznej m.st. Warszawy

Podczas ostatniej sesji Rady m.st. Warszawy, która odbyła się 5 października, stołeczni radni przyjęli stanowisko aby wyrazić swoje pełne poparcie dla inicjatyw w ramach Miesiąca Świadomości Raka Piersi, organizowanych corocznie w październiku, z kulminacją 15 października, kiedy to obchodzimy Światowy Dzień Walki z Rakiem Piersi.

Posiedzenie Komisji Kultury i Promocji Miasta Rady m.st. Warszawy odbędzie się w PKiN, s. 2023, 4 października 2023 r. o godz. 15.00. porządek obrad

5 października 2023 roku (czwartek) w PKiN, Sala Warszawska, p. IV, wejście od ul. Marszałkowskiej, odbędzie się dokończenie LXXXIX posiedzenia Rady m.st. Warszawy. Rozpoczęcie planowane jest na godz. 10.30. porządek obrad – wersja do wydruku porządek obrad on-line Transmisja on-line: poprzez stronę YouTube Rady m.st. Warszawy poprzez stronę Biuletynu Informacji Publicznej m.st. Warszawy

Uroczystości upamiętniające odbyły się, jak co roku, 17 września, przed Pomnikiem Poległym i Pomordowanym na Wschodzie.

Podczas uroczystości Odznakę Honorową Zasłużonego dla Warszawy z rąk wiceprzewodniczącego Rady m.st. Warszawy, Sławomira Potapowicza oraz zastępcy burmistrza Ursynowa, Jakuba Berenta otrzymała Roma Łojewska, założycielka stowarzyszenia. Celem organizacji jest pomoc biednym, słabszym, młodzieży i dzieciom.

14 września 2023 r. przy pomniku 21. Warszawskiego Pułku Piechoty "Dzieci Warszawy", u zbiegu Al. J. Waszyngtona oraz ul. Grenadierów, odbyły się obchody 84. rocznicy obrony warszawskiej Pragi oraz 79. rocznicy Powstania Warszawskiego. Radę m.st. Warszawy na wydarzeniu reprezentował radny Paweł Lech.

Posiedzenie Komisji Samorządowej i Integracji Europejskiej Rady m.st. Warszawy odbędzie się w PKiN, kuluary sali Warszawskiej, p.IV, 21 września 2023 r. o godz. 9.30. porzadąk obrad

Posiedzenie Komisji Rozwoju Gospodarczego i Cyfryzacji Rady m.st. Warszawy odbędzie się w PKiN, s. 2023, 18 września 2023 r. o godz. 17.00. porządk obrad

21 września 2023 roku (czwartek) w PKiN, Sala Warszawska, p. IV, wejście od ul. Marszałkowskiej, odbędzie się LXXXVIII posiedzenie Rady m.st. Warszawy. Rozpoczęcie planowane jest na godz. 10.00. porządek obrad – wersja do wydruku porządek obrad on-line Transmisja on-line: poprzez stronę YouTube Rady m.st. Warszawy poprzez stronę Biuletynu Informacji Publicznej m.st. Warszawy

Paweł Adamowicz was born in Gdańsk on 2 November 1965. After the war, his parents were resettled in Gdansk from the Vilnius Region. He grew up in the Old Town and the Main Town, passed his matura exam at the First General Education High School, and studied law at the University of Gdańsk (1984-89). During the UG student solidarity strike of 1988, he was the chairman of the Student Strike Committee. Since 1989, for nine years he was employed at the University of Gdańsk as an assistant in the...

Na podstawie uchwały Rady m.st. Warszawy z 25 maja 2023 r. aleja w parku Tadeusza Mazowieckiego otrzymała imię profesora Michała Kuleszy. 12 września 2023 r. odbyło się uroczyste odsłonięcie alei parkowej.

10 września odbyła się uroczystość poświęcona pamięci Żołnierzy 77. Pułku Piechoty Wojska Polskiego i 77. Pułku Piechoty Armii Krajowej okręgu Nowogródek oraz Mieszkańców Ziemi Lidzkiej. Na wydarzeniu obecny był radny Dariusz Figura.

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

1 września 1939 roku wybuchła II wojna światowa. Niezaprzeczalnie było to jedno z najtragiczniejszych wydarzeń historii współczesnej.

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...

Jerzy Owsiak (born 6 October 1953 in Gdańsk) Honorary Citizen of the Capital City of Warsaw from June 2014. A radio and television journalist, an author of music programmes, the founder of the Woodstock Festival, the initiator, founder and President of the “Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity” Foundation. At the age of eight, he moved with his parents to Warsaw, where his mother had lived before the war. Here, he graduated from an economic secondary school. Following his matura exam and...

Mieczysław Szostek (born 20 September 1933 in Legionowo) Honorary Citizen of the Capital City of Warsaw from June 2014. A surgeon, Professor of Medicine, Deputy to the Sejm, Chairman of the National Council of the Capital City of Warsaw in 1981-1990. Until 3 September 1939, he lived in Legionowo. After the outbreak of the war, the family was evacuated to the vicinity of Siedlce, where he completed his primary and secondary school. In 1952-1958, he studied at the Medical Academy in Warsaw....

Jan Olszewski (born 20 August 1930 in Warsaw, died 7 February 2019 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of the Capital City of Warsaw from June 2014. A lawyer, politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (5 December 1991 – 5 June 1992). During the occupation, he was a member of the Grey Ranks. After the war, he was employed at the Ministry of Justice and the Polish Academy of Sciences. Later, he was an editor of the “Po Prostu” weekly. In 1956-1962, he was a member of the Club of the Crooked...

Zbigniew Romaszewski (born 2 January 1940 in Warsaw, died 13 February 2014 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of the Capital City of Warsaw since June 2013. A politician, opposition activist during the period of the People's Republic of Poland, Doctor of Physics, Senator (seven consecutive terms of office in the years 1989-2011), Deputy Chairman of the seventh term Senate, a member of the State Tribunal. After the Warsaw Uprising he was taken with his mother to the Gross-Rosen work camp. He...

Irena Santor (born December 9, 1934, in Papowo Biskupie) Honorary Citizen of the Capital City of Warsaw since June 2013. A soloist in the “Mazowsze”, State Folk Group of Song and Dance, a singer (mezzo-soprano), winner of national and international competitions, performer of songs, many of which have become hits. Her professional career began in 1951, in the “Mazowsze” State Folk Group of Song and Dance. In those times came her first big hit ”Ej, przeleciał ptaszek". In 1959 she recorded for...

Maria Janion, (born on December 24, 1926 in Mońki) Honorary Citizen of the Capital City of Warsaw since June 2013. A historian of literature and ideas, a researcher of Polish culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teacher of many generations of scholars, literary critic, expert on Polish and European romanticism, full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She studied Polish philology, first at...

Stanisław Wyganowski, (born in 1919, died in 2017) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2012. Stanisław Wyganowski was born in Ligota (Łask District) in 1919, a Doctor of Economics, urban planner, Local-Government activist, and between 1990 and 1994 The Mayor of the City of Warsaw. Died in Warsaw in 2017. He participated in the September Campaign of 1939, and during the Nazi occupation he served in the Home Army (2nd Infantry Division, “Jodła” district among others), taking part in...

Jerzy Regulski, (born in 1924, died in 2015) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2012. Prof. Jerzy Regulski was born in Zarybie, a co-founder and the President of the Council of Founders of the Foundation in Support of Local Democracy Development (since 1989), Profesor of Higher Schools of Public Administration in Białystok and Szczecin. During the occupation period he was a second lieutenant of the National Armed Forces. A member of the Management Board of the Society of Brotherly Help...

Sławomir Pietras (born in 1943) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2012. Sławomir Pietras was born in 1943 in Czeladź, he is a lawyer by education, a director of Polish opera houses by profession. A publicist, pedagogue, opera and ballet art populariser. For over 30 years he managed opera houses in Wrocław, Łódź, Warsaw and Poznań in turn. A graduate from the Faculty of Law of Adam Mickiewicz University. During his studies he founded and was the first President of the Association of Opera...

Witold Kieżun, (born 6 February 1922 in Vilnius, died 12 June 2021 in Warsaw) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2012. Prof. Witold J. Kieżun was born in Vilnius in 1922. a Professor of Economics, an academic, a management theoretician, a representative of the Polish School of praxeology, a soldier in the Polish Home Army (AK), a second lieutenant during WWII, a partisan during the Warsaw Uprising and a prisoner in Soviet gulags. In 1931, he moved to Warsaw, where in 1939 he graduated from...

Jerzy Karol Buzek, (born in 1940) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since June 2011. Professor Jerzy Karol Buzek, PhD. Eng., born on 3 July 1940 in Śmiłowice in the Cieszyn Silesia. Professor of technical sciences, MP in the third Sejm, and the Polish Prime Minister in the years 1997-2001, Member of the European Parliament. In the years 1957-1963 he studied at the Faculty of Mechanics and Power Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology. In 1963 he received the Diploma of M. Sc. Eng. in...

Rev. Archbishop Henryk Hoser, S.A.C. (born in 1941) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since June 2011. Rev. Archbishop Henryk Hoser, S.A.C., (born on 27 November 1942 in Warsaw). In 1944 his family moved to Pruszków, where Henryk completed primary and secondary school. In 1966 he graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw. Two years later he became a member of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (the Pallottines). In the years 1969-1974 he studied philosophy and theology at the Higher...

Lidia Korska-Brusikiewicz (born 17 January 1934 - died 6 September 2013) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since June 2011. Lidia Korsak-Brusikiewicz, known by the general public as Lidia Korsakówna, was born on 17 January 1934 in Baranowicze (Baranovichi). A theatre and film actress, she has been associated with Warsaw’s stages since her very first performances. Her artistic career as a dancer and singer started in the 1950s, in the “Mazowsze” State Folk Song and Dance Ensemble, under the tutelage...

Henryk Skarżyński, (born in 1954) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since July 2010. Prof. Henryk Skarzynski, M.D., Ph.D., is a worldwide known otosurgeon, expert in otorhinolaryngology, audiology and phoniatrics; currently - national consultant in otorhinolaryngology in Poland; former national and regional consultant in audiology and phoniatrics. His innovative otosurgical methods are implemented in medical centers all over the world. First surgeon in Poland to perform cochlear implantation...

Aleksander Kwaśniewski (born 15 November 1954). Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since July 2010 He was born in Białogard. In the years 1973 -1977 he studied foreign trade at the Department of Transport Economics at the University of Gdańsk. During his studies he served as Chairman of the University Council of the Socialist Union of Polish Students (SZSP). fr0m 1977, he was a member of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) until it was dissolved in 1990. He was employed in journalism. He was...

Maria Stypułkowska-Chojecka, pseudonym “Kama” (born 24.09.1926, died 05.02.2016) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since July 2010. She was born in Warsaw. In 1937 she joined the 58th Warsaw Scout Team. In the September of 1939, together with her scout team, in the Central Station, she took care of women, children and the elderly who ran away to Warsaw from the areas occupied by Germans. She participated in underground education, first as a student, and later as a teacher. During the occupation she...

Ziuta Hartman, née Rotenberg (born 5 October 1922) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since July 2010 Born in Kielce. participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She attended the Jewish Secondary School for Girls in Kielce until the outbreak of World War II. After the creation of the ghetto in Kielce, she was confined to its area. Given over to the German occupier for the lack of a Jewish armband, she miraculously escaped prison. Afterwards she ran away from Kielce to Radom, and then to Warsaw,...

Lech Kaczyński, (born 18 June 1949, died 10 April 2010) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since April 2010 Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. LXXVIII/2330/2010 of 15 April 2010. A Polish politician, President of the Republic of Poland 2005-2010. A Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University and the University of Gdańsk, a specialist in labour law. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at Warsaw University, he was an assistant...

Michał Jan Sumiński, (born 13 July 1915, died 24 December 2011) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2009. Born in Warsaw, a forest officer, zoologist, yacht captain and journalist, the author of many books and articles. Sumiński graduated from the Faculty of Forestry at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Zoology at the University of Warsaw, he also obtained the ranks of sea yacht master and sailing instructor. In 1943 he was imprisoned in the notorious Pawiak prison,...

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, (born 18 April 1927, died 28 October 2013) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2009 Born in Płock, a journalist, social activist and politician, the first Prime Minister of the Polish Third Republic. Between 1949-1955, he worked in the PAX Association. In 1958, he established the “Więź” monthly and became its editor-in-chief. From 1961 to 1972, he was a representative in the Sejm of PRL (People’s Republic of Poland), serving his third, fourth and fifth terms as a member...

Captain (rotmistrz) Witold Pilecki, (born 13 May 1901, died 25 May 1948) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from May 2009 Born in Olonets, in the northern Russia, where the Pilecki family had been resettled by the Russian authorities in reprisal for the participation in the January Uprising. His service for Poland began during the war with the Bolsheviks in 1920. As a cavalryman he took part in the defence of Grodno and the liberation of Vilnius. He was twice awarded the Cross of Valour. During...

The Dalai Lama, (born 6 July 1935) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since May 2009. Born to a peasant family in the village of Taktser in north-eastern Tibet, near the city of Xining, as Lhamo Dhondrub. At the age of two, after a long search for the next incarnations of the Dalai Lama,maintained according to centuries-old Tibetan tradition , he was recognised as the incarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. The Dalai Lama received a new name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin...