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* Krystyna Skarbek ( Christine Granville ) ( 1915 – 1952 ), Polish SOE agent and World War II heroine
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Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, GM, OBE, Croix de guerre (; 1 May 1908-15 June 1952 ) was a Polish Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) agent.
Ironically, the prison had been designed in the mid-19th century by Krystyna Skarbek's great-great-uncle Fryderyk Florian Skarbek, a prison reformer and Frédéric Chopin's godfather, who had been tutored in French language by Chopin's father.
" When Skarbek denied that her name was Krystyna Skarbek, the lady answered that she would have sworn she was Krystyna Skarbek ; the resemblance was positively uncanny!
Krystyna Skarbek helped organize a system of Polish couriers who brought intelligence reports from Warsaw to Budapest.
An unknown number of Poles ( including the best known, Krystyna Skarbek ) were also parachuted into France by the British Special Operations Executive to start an underground movement among the half-million-strong Polish minority.
( His lover, Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, was the first woman to pass the same course.
* Jan Larecki, Krystyna Skarbek: agentka o wielu twarzach ( Krystyna Skarbek: Agent with Many Faces ), Warsaw, Książka i Wiedza, 2008, ISBN 978-83-05-13533-7.
Krystyna Skarbek, a young Polish SOE operative who had avoided arrest, managed to get Cammaerts and the others released.
In early 1940, one of the rifles, its stock and barrel sawed off, was smuggled out of Poland across the Tatra Mountains into Hungary for the Allies by Krystyna Skarbek and Polish fellow couriers.
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Krystyna Skowrońska, renamed Christina Samuilovna Skavronskaya ( 1687 – 14 April 1729 ), had married Simon-Heinrich N ( 1672 – 1728 ) and their descendants became the Counts Guendrikov.
Otwock is a hometown of Irena Sendler ( 1910 – 2008 ), the Polish humanitarian who saved thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust ; as well as Krystyna Dańko, both awarded the titles of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
In 1692, he founded a city on the lands of the village Novyi Dvir ( literally New Garden, Polish Nowy Dwór ), which he named after the wife of the magnate, Krystyna ( maiden last name Lubomirski, 1661 – 1699 ).
Stanisław Lubomirski ( 1583 – 1649 ) married Zofia Ostrogska, Aleksander Michał Lubomirski married Helena Tekla Ossolińska, Krystyna Lubomirska married Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Józef Karol ( 1638 – 1702 ) was Teofilia Ludwika Zasławska ’ s husband, Teresa Lubomirska ( d. 1712 ) was Karol Filip ’ s wife, the Prince of Neuburg, and Marianna ( 1693 – 1729 ) – Paweł Karol Sanguszko ’ s, Grand Marshal of Lithuania.
* Krystyna Tokarzówna and Stanisław Fita, Bolesław Prus, 1847 – 1912: Kalendarz życia i twórczości ( Bolesław Prus, 1847 – 1912: a Calendar of Life and Work ), edited by Zygmunt Szweykowski, Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1969.
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A notable film to have emerged during this period was Ryszard Bugajski's 1982 film Interrogation ( Przesluchanie ), which depicts the story of an unfortunate woman ( played by Krystyna Janda ) who is arrested and tortured by the secret police into confessing a crime she knows nothing about.
Krystyna Maria Łybacka (; born 10 February 1946 in Jutrosin ) is a Polish political figure who has been serving in the country's national Parliament ( Sejm ), since 1991 and, from October 2001 to May 2004, was a member of the cabinet, with the title of Minister of National Education.
* Krystyna Tokarzówna and Stanisław Fita, Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: Kalendarz życia i twórczości ( Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: a Calendar of Life and Work ), edited by Zygmunt Szweykowski, Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1969.
He also edited Krystyna Tokarzówna's and Stanisław Fita's exhaustive Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: Kalendarz życia i twórczości ( Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: a Calendar of Life and Work ), Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1969.
* Krystyna Tokarzówna and Stanisław Fita, Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: kalendarz życia i twórczości, pod redakcją Zygmunta Szweykowskiego ( Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: a Calendar of Life and Work, edited by Zygmunt Szweykowski ), Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1969.
While the primary theme of Ashes and Diamonds follows the eponymous post-war book by Jerzy Andrzejewski, the relationship between Maciek and the barmaid Krystyna ( Ewa Krzyzewska ) is loosely based on that between Johnny ( Marlon Brando ) and Kathie ( Maria Murphy ), the barmaid in the small town that his gang rides into.
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He was the son of Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz, Ruthenian rooted castellan of Vilnius and Krystyna Zborowska, daughter of famous Polish aristocratic family from Wielkopolska.
The fugitive party included three Polish soldiers, a Latvian landowner, a Lithuanian architect, and an enigmatic US metro engineer called " Mr. Smith "; they were later joined by a 17-year-old Polish girl, Krystyna.
* ( Polish ) Krystyna Tyszkowska " Panorama Racławicka: 90 lat niezwykłych dziejów ", ISBN 83-03-01493-5
His first full-length play, Tango ( 1964 ) written about totalitarianism in the style of Theatre of the Absurd, made him one of the most recognizable Polish contemporary dramatists in the world wrote Krystyna Dąbrowska.
Her Serene Highness Princess Anna Christina Radziwill ( born Anna Krystyna Radziwiłł on 18 August 1960, in New York City ) is the daughter of Lee Radziwill ( Polish pronunciation: RRah-gee-veaw ) and the late Polish Prince Stanislaw Radziwill.
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