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Tribute to Henryk Sławik, Hero of Three Nations: Polish, Hungarian and Jewish
28 października, 2014
The event at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC offered an opportunity to recall the life and deeds of Henryk Sławik, one of the greatest Righteous Among the Nations.
During a symbolic ceremony held at the museum, Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf together with Museum Director Sara Bloomfield paid tribute to Henryk Sławik, Hero of Three Nations: Polish, Hungarian and Jewish.
A prewar social and political activist, wartime found him in Hungary where as head of the Citizen Committee for Polish Refugees in Hungary, he helped rescue 30,000 Poles. For his actions he paid with his life. Sławik, the “Polish Wallenberg” was murdered by Nazi Germany on August 23, 1944 in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
For rescuing Jews Sławik was posthumously awarded Righteous Among the Nations in 1990 by the Yad Vashem institute. According to numerous research, Sławik and his team of rescuers saved around 5,000 Jews. In 2010 Henryk Sławik was posthumously awarded Poland’s highest decoration - The Order of the White Eagle.
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