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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...

Bishop Józef Zawitkowski, (Wał, the District of Nowe Miasto by the Pilica River, 23 November 1938 - Warsaw 29 October 2020) An Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since June 2008. Born on 23 November 1938 in Wał, the District of Nowe Miasto by the Pilica River. In 1956 he entered the Warsaw Seminary, and on 20 May 1962 he was ordained to the priesthood by Primate Stefan Wyszyński. He was a vicar in Krośniewice, Legionowo, in the parish of Saint Paul’s Conversion in Warsaw, in the parish of Saint...

Erwin Axer, (born in 1917 - died in 1935) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since June 2008. Born on 1st January 1917 in Vienna, a Polish theatre director, theatrical columnist and author of memoirs. In 1939 he graduated from the State Institute of Theatrical Art. He made his debut on the stage with Eugene O’Neill’s play The Moon of the Caribbes. After the start of war he came back do Lviv, where he spent three years (1939 – 1942). During the Soviet occupation, when The Polish Drama Theatre was...

Stefan Starba-Bałuk, (born 15 January in 1914, died 30 January in 2014) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since June 2008. Born on 15 January 1914 in Warsaw, he completed the J. Zamoyski Lower Secondary School and graduated from the Faculty of Finance and Economics of the School of Political Sciences in Warsaw. In 1939, when the war broke out, he was a third-year student of the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw. In September 1939 he was assigned to the 9th armoured battalion in Lublin,...

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...

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...

Aleksander Gieysztor, (born 17 July 1916 - died 9 February 1999) An Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from April 1992. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XXX/168/92 of 13 April 1992. An eminent scholar and historian for almost all his life connected with Warsaw. He lived in the capital from 1921. During the occupation he was active in the underground army. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising, where he was taken prisoner. During the war he connected underground activities...

Stanisław Broniewski-Orsza, (born 29 December 1915 - died 30 December 2000) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from April 1992. Resolution of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw No. XXX/167/92 of 13 April 1992. A distinguished activist of the scouting movement and one of the best known members of the Polish resistance movement. He acted under the pseudonyms Stefan Orsza, Witold, K. Krzemień. He commanded the Operation Arsenal. He was the commanding officer of the Warsaw Banner of the Grey...

Eugenia Kierbedziowa, (born 1855 - died 10 July 1946) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since April 1929 Daughter of Stanisław Kierbedź, the famous builder of steel truss bridges, including the first steel bridge in Warsaw, closes the roster of pre-war Honorary Citizens of Warsaw. However, the Council of Warsaw honoured Eugenia Kierbedziowa for her own merits in respect of the capital. She was a great philanthropist. In 1914 she donated to the city a building in Koszykowa Street specially-built and...

Maria Skłodowska-Curie, (born 7 November 1867 – died 4 July 1934 ) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from April 1924. Born in Warsaw, a great scientist, the co-originator of radioactivity studies. She spent most of her life in France, where her scientific career developed. She was the precursor of a new branch of chemistry – radiochemistry. Her achievements include the development of the radioactivity theory, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes and the discovery of two new elements –...

Ferdynand Foch, (born 2 November 1851 - died 20 March 1929) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since April 1923. Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland. An outstanding leader and theoretician in the art of war. One of the heroes of World War I. Before its outbreak he was a lecturer at the French Military Academy. As Commander of the Ninth Army he largely contributed to the victory at the Battle of the Marne in 1914. In 1917, he became Chief of the General Staff. In 1918, he conducted a...

Lucjan Żeligowski, (born 17 October 1865 – died 9 July 1947) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw since October 1920. General of arms, military commander. He was born in Nieśwież. Son of Gustaw, an insurrectionist from 1863, and Władysława of Traczewscy. In 1885 joined the Russian Army. He participated in the Russo-Japanese war in the years 1904-1905. During the 1st World War he was in command of an infantry regiment. After the February Revolution in 1917 he was one of the organisers of the Polish...

Maxime Weygand, (born 1867 – died 1965) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from 23 August 1920. WW I veteran. From November 1917 he was a member of the High Military Council, and from March 1918 head of the General Staff. Between 1920 and 1922 the head of a Military Mission in Poland responsible for training and supplying the Polish Armed Forces. He took part in the Battle of Warsaw and the fighting off of the Red Army, serving as the military advisor in Marshal Piłsudski’s staff. From 1923 the...

Józef Haller Hohorary Citizen of Warsaw Józef Haller, (born in 1873 – died in 1960) Honorary Citizen of Warsaw from 23 April 1919 Born on 13th of August 1873 in Jurczyce near Kraków, to a landowning family. After he graduated from university he was appointed to the rank of second lieutenant and started a 15-year period of service in the Austrian army. In the years 1895–1910 he served in the 11th...

Józef Klemens Piłsudski (born in 1867 – died in 1935) Honary Citizen of Warsaw since 1918 Head of State of Poland in the years 1918-1922, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army since 11 November 1918, the First Marshal of Poland from 1920, two-time Prime Minister of Poland (1926-1928 and 1930). Independence activist, politician, statesman. He is one of the greatest figures in the history of Poland. He descended from an indigent landowning family with old independence traditions. In 1886 he...

Posiedzenie Komisji Polityki Społecznej i Rodziny Rady m.st. Warszawy odbędzie się w PKiN, s. 2023, 29 sierpnia 2023 r. o godz. 17.30 porzadąk obrad

31 sierpnia 2023 roku (czwartek) w PKiN, Sala Warszawska, p. IV, wejście od ul. Marszałkowskiej, odbędzie się LXXXVI 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

21 sierpnia 2023 r. odbyła się debata o opiece psychologicznej w szkołach zainicjowana przez przewodniczącą Komisji Edukacji Rady m.st. Warszawy Dorotę Łobodę we współpracy z fundacją GrowSpace. W wydarzeniu udział wzięli wiceprzewodnicząca Rady m.st. Warszawy Magdalena Roguska oraz radni Renata Niewitecka i Paweł Lech.

20. dnia Powstania Warszawskiego Powstańcy zdobyli gmach Polskiej Akcyjnej Spółki Telefonicznej, tak zwanej PAST-y, zlokalizowany przy ul. Zielnej 37/39. Z okazji 79. rocznicy tego wydarzenia w niedzielę 20 sierpnia odbyły się uroczystości.

13-15 sierpnia 1920 roku zapisały się na kartach historii jako dni przepełnione odwagą i bohaterstwem. 103 lata temu rozegrała się jedna z najważniejszych bitew w historii świata, podczas której bohaterowie uchronili nie tylko Polskę, ale i całą Europę. W obchodach rocznicy "Cudu nad Wisłą" udział wziął radny Stanisław Dratkiewicz.

14 sierpnia o godz.18:00 w ponad 30 miejscach w kraju Polacy i Ukraińcy zapalili “Płomień Braterstwa”. W uroczystości na Cmentarzu Prawosławnym na Woli udział wzięli radni Jarosław Szostakowski oraz Beata Michalec.

Trwają obchody 79. rocznicy Powstania Warszawskiego. 5 sierpnia odbyły się kolejne uroczystości.

1 sierpnia, data wybuchu Powstania Warszawskiego, jest jedną z najbliższych sercu każdego Warszawiaka. W tym roku obchodzimy 79. rocznicę rozpoczęcia tej 63-dniowej walki o wolność.

31 lipca 2023 r. odbyła się uroczysta, LXXXV sesja Rady m.st. Warszawy. Stolica zyskała kolejnych dwóch Honorowych Obywateli - Janusza Dorosiewicza oraz Juliusza Kuleszę. Nagrodami m.st. Warszawy odznaczono 36 osób i organizacji.

U zbiegu ulic Miłej i al. Jana Pawła II 61 powstał mural generała Zbigniewa Ścibor-Rylskiego. W wydarzeniu uroczystego odsłonięcia uczestniczyła Ewa Malinowska-Grupińska, Przewodnicząca Rady m.st. Warszawy, Sławomir Potapowicz i Alicja Żebrowska, Wiceprzewodniczący Rady m. st. Warszawa oraz radna Anna Auksel-Sekutowicz.

W poniedziałek 31 lipca 2023 r. w Dużej Auli Politechniki Warszawskiej odbędzie się Uroczysta Sesja Rady m.st. Warszawy zwołana z okazji Dnia Pamięci Warszawy.

Apel do mieszkańców Warszawy wzywa do godnego uczczenia godziny "W" w 79. rocznicę Powstania Warszawskiego. W corocznej konferencji prasowej uczestniczył Wiceprzewodniczący Rady m.st. Warszawy Sławomir Potapowicz.

Janusz Dorosiewicz oraz Juliusz Kulesza zostali Honorowymi Obywatelami Miasta Stołecznego Warszawy.

Janusz Dorosiewicz Architekt, producent filmowy, społecznik. W latach 1992-1998 był dyrektorem Centralnego Wojskowego Klubu Sportowego Legia (CWKS). W 1966 r. wyjechał do Kanady, a następnie do Stanów Zjednoczonych. Do Polski wrócił po zmianach ustrojowych, w 1991 r. W latach 90. był dyrektorem Polskiego Związku Tenisowego. Działania Pana Janusza Dorosiewicza w znakomity sposób wpisują się w jedno z najważniejszych zadań samorządów, jakim jest wspieranie i zachęcanie do tworzenia i rozwoju...

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz Ekonomistka, profesor nauk prawnych, polityk. Urodziła się w Warszawie. Jest córką powstańca warszawskiego. W 1980 r. współtworzyła struktury NSZZ „Solidarność” na Wydziale Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Po wyborach parlamentarnych w 1989 r. była ekspertem obu izb parlamentu w zakresie prawa administracyjnego, gospodarczego i bankowego. W 1992 r. powierzono jej pełnienie funkcji prezesa Narodowego Banku Polskiego. Sprawowała ją przez osiem lat. W...

prof. Andrzej Rzepliński Urodził się 26 listopada 1949 roku w Ciechanowie. W 1971 roku ukończył studia na Wydziale Prawa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, a następnie został aplikantem Prokuratury Powiatowej w Garwolinie. W 1978 roku uzyskał stopień naukowy doktora z zakresu kryminologii, a w 1990 stopień doktora habilitowanego. Od 2000 roku jest profesorem zwyczajnym. Związał się zawodowo z Uniwersytetem Warszawskim, gdzie został kierownikiem Katedry Kryminologii i Polityki Kryminalnej oraz...

Jolanta Brzeska Urodziła się 25 stycznia 1947 roku w Warszawie. Działaczka społeczna i jedna ze współzałożycielek Warszawskiego Stowarzyszenia Lokatorów. W 2006 roku decyzją o zwrocie nieruchomości, kamienica przy ul. Nabielaka 9, w której mieszkała Jolanta Brzeska, stała się własnością nowych właścicieli, a pełnomocnik spadkobierców dawnych posiadaczy budynku rozwiązał umowę najmu kwaterunkowego. Od tego czasu, rozpoczęło się nękanie i nachodzenie oraz podwyższanie czynszu i próby zajęcia...