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Henryk Sławik

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Polish politician, social worker, activist, and diplomat (1894-1944)

WritersLived 1894 to 1944 · aged 50
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Henryk Sławik was a Polish politician in the interwar period, social worker, activist, and diplomat, who during World War II helped save over 30,000 Polish refugees, including 5,000 Polish Jews in Budapest, Hungary, by giving them false Polish passports with Catholic designation.

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Awards 5

2010Order of the White Eagle
2004Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
1977Righteous Among the Nations
1938Cross of Independence
1937Gold Cross of Merit‎

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Maria PiłsudskaAlso won Cross of IndependenceJan Stanisław JankowskiAlso won Cross of IndependenceMaria DulębiankaAlso won Cross of IndependenceStefan StarzyńskiAlso won Cross of IndependenceJuliusz Kaden-BandrowskiAlso won Cross of IndependenceKonstanty PlisowskiAlso won Cross of Independence

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Henryk Sławik was a Polish politician in the interwar period, social worker, activist, and diplomat, who during World War II helped save over 30,000 Polish refugees, including 5,000 Polish Jews in Budapest, Hungary, by giving them false Polish passports with Catholic designation. He was executed with some of his fellow Polish activists on order of Reichsführer SS in concentration camp Gusen on 23 August 1944.

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Writers
Type
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Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1894 to 1944 · aged 50
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16 languages

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