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== Recipients ==
== Recipients ==
{{List to table|date=October 2021}}


=== Gold Cross of Merit ===
=== Gold Cross of Merit ===

* Ewa Hojna, 13 May 2022, Director of Polish School Cultural Association (ACEP), Spain
{| class="wikitable sortable"
* [[Jan-Krzysztof Duda]], 2021, [[Grandmaster (chess)|chess grandmaster]]<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.rmf24.pl/fakty/polska/news-jan-krzysztof-duda-odznaczony-zlotym-krzyzem-zaslugi-nikt-ni,nId,5581964#crp_state=1 |language = pl |title=Jan-Krzysztof Duda odznaczony Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi. "Nikt nie osiąga sukcesu sam" | access-date = 13 December 2021}}</ref>
|+ Gold Cross of Merit
* Wanda Paulina Gluszek, 2016, political activist, poet, Chicago, Illinois
|-
* Michał [[Korwin-Szymanowski Family|Korwin-Szymanowski]], also known as Michel Korwin, 2015, Montréal, Canada
! Name !! Date !! Notes
* [[John P. Lynch]], 3 November 2014, CEO and founder of [[Lynka]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://amcham.pl/about-us/news |title=News |access-date=8 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108131448/http://amcham.pl/about-us/news |archive-date=8 November 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
* [[Philippe Blain]], 27 October 2014, coach of [[Poland men's national volleyball team]] – [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champions 2014]]
|[[Przemysław Krych]]
* [[Fabian Drzyzga]], 27 October 2014, [[volleyball player]], [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champion 2014]]
|July 2024
* [[Mateusz Mika]], 27 October 2014, [[volleyball player]], [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champion 2014]]
|for exemplary public and charity service, Poland<ref>{{Cite web |url = https://monitorpolski.gov.pl/M2024000070601.pdf | title = Dziennik Urzedowy RP|language = pl}}</ref>
* [[Karol Kłos]], 27 October 2014, [[volleyball player]], [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champion 2014]]
|-
* [[Michał Kwiatkowski]], 2014, Polish road cyclist
|Edward Karpinski
* [[Andrzej Wrona]], 27 October 2014, [[volleyball player]], [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champion 2014]]
|January 2023
* [[Paweł Zatorski]], 27 October 2014, [[volleyball player]], [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champion 2014]]
|For exemplary public service in the Polish community in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
* [[Joanna Zawadzka]], 2 May 2014, community activist living in Scotland, director of [[Polish Cultural Festival Association]]
|-
* [[Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm]], 20 June 2014, U.S.-based writer and academic
|[[Józefa Bramowska]]
* Katarzyna Maria Dziewanowska, 26 September 2013, scientific research, University of Idaho
|1939
* Elwira Grossman, August 2013, Scotland
|Politician
* John Dodunski, March 2013, New Zealand
|-
* Robert Dodunski, March 2013, New Zealand
| Ewa Hojna || 13 May 2022 || Director of Polish School Cultural Association (ACEP), Spain
* Bogdan Labecki, 2013<ref name="gazette.gc.ca" />
|-
* Margaret Scannell née Dodunski, March 2013, New Zealand
| [[Jan-Krzysztof Duda]] || 2021 || [[Grandmaster (chess)|chess grandmaster]]<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.rmf24.pl/fakty/polska/news-jan-krzysztof-duda-odznaczony-zlotym-krzyzem-zaslugi-nikt-ni,nId,5581964#crp_state=1 |language = pl |title=Jan-Krzysztof Duda odznaczony Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi. "Nikt nie osiąga sukcesu sam" | access-date = 13 December 2021}}</ref>
* Michal Kuleczka, 2013<ref name="gazette.gc.ca2">"Government House (Award to Canadians)". Canada Gazette. Vol. 147, No. 8 — 23 February 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013 from: http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2013/2013-02-23/html/gh-rg-eng.html</ref>
|-
* Thomas Gabriel Grasza Esq, 11 November 2011, postage stamp and coin sesigner and noted Canadian-Polish philatelist of four decades
|Rick Sahar
* [[Izabella Zielińska]], 2011, Polish pianist
|2020
* Bronisław Oczkowski, 14 December 2010, Melbourne, Australia<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sip.lex.pl/akty-prawne/mp-monitor-polski/nadanie-orderow-i-odznaczen-17696674|title = Nadanie orderów i odznaczeń. - M.P.2011.27.295}}</ref>
|For building good relations through shared events within the Polish-Jewish communities in Wellington, New Zealand
* [[Geertjan Lassche]], 2007, Dutch reporter and documentary film maker
|-
* [[Tomasz Miśkiewicz]], Silver Cross of Merit 2006, mufti, for work with the immigrant and native Islamic Youth, Gold Cross of Merit 2011, for work with the Muslim minorities, and for interfaith dialogue
| Wanda Paulina Gluszek || 2016 || political activist, poet, Chicago, Illinois
* [[Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska]], 2005, Polish computer scientist<ref name=order>{{cite web | url=https://www.computerworld.pl/news/Ordery-za-IT,85617.html | author = Andrzej Maciejewski | date = 25 November 2005| title=Ordery za IT |trans-title=Orders for IT | publisher = [[Computerworld]] |language=pl}}</ref>
|-
* [[Agata Mroz-Olszewska]], 2005, volleyball player, double European champion team member, 2003 and 2005
| Michał [[Korwin-Szymanowski Family|Korwin-Szymanowski]], also known as Michel Korwin || 2015 || Montréal, Canada
* [[Adam Skorek]], 2004
|-
* Ryszard Antoni Kuśmierczyk, August 2002, Engineer and community leader based ub [[Windsor, Ontario]], Canada
| [[John P. Lynch]]|| 3 November 2014 || CEO and founder of [[Lynka]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://amcham.pl/about-us/news |title=News |access-date=8 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108131448/http://amcham.pl/about-us/news |archive-date=8 November 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Alojzy Nowak]], 2002<ref>{{Cite web|title=Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 20 września 2002 r. o nadaniu orderów i odznaczeń.|url=http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20020610858|access-date=18 June 2020|website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}</ref>
|-
* Jerzy Zralski, 2000, II WW veteran and writer.<ref name="gazette.gc.ca">"Government House (Award to Canadians)". Canada Gazette. Vol. 134, No. 43 — 21 October 2000. from: www.http://publications.gc.ca/gazette/archives/p1/2000/2000-10-21/pdf/g1-13443.pdf</ref>
| [[Philippe Blain]] || 27 October 2014 || coach of [[Poland men's national volleyball team]] – [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champions 2014]]
* Stanis[[Witold Bełza|ł]]<nowiki/>aw Nosal, 1979, Polish Colonel of the 5th Rocket Artillery Battalion in [[Modlin Fortress]], Poland.
|-
* [[Witold Bełza]], 1938, Polish librarian, writer, publicist and cultural activist.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://biblioteka.bydgoszcz.pl/biblioteka-glowna/patron/#:~:text=Odznaczony%20Z%C5%82otym%20Krzy%C5%BCem%20Zas%C5%82ugi%20(1938,Miejskiej%20Biblioteki%20Publicznej%20w%20Bydgoszczy. |title=PATRON – WITOLD BEŁZA |last= |first= |date=2021 |website=biblioteka.bydgoszcz.pl |publisher=biblioteka.bydgoszcz |access-date=29 January 2021}}</ref>
| [[Fabian Drzyzga]] || 27 October 2014 || [[volleyball player]], [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champion 2014]]
* [[Michael Biegler]], German head coach of the [[Poland men's national handball team|Poland national handball team]]
|-
* Jan Bujak, July 1984, Corporate owner
| [[Mateusz Mika]] || 27 October 2014 || [[volleyball player]], [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champion 2014]]
* [[Stanisław Sylwester Alfonzy Grodyński]], 1939, Polish Governor (Starost), military intelligence officer, lawyer.<ref>The Grodyński Brigade, Andrzej ST Grodyński 1977/2012</ref>
|-
* [[Stanisław Horno-Popławski]], 1952, Polish [[painting|painter]], [[Sculpture|sculptor]] and [[Pedagogy|pedagogue]].<ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |date=22 July 1952 |title=M.P. 1952 nr 70 poz. 1078. Zarządzenie o nadaniu Złotego Krzyża Zasługi |url=http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WMP19520701078/O/M19521078.pdf |location=Warsaw |publisher=PREZYDENT RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ}}</ref>
| [[Karol Kłos]] || 27 October 2014 || [[volleyball player]], [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champion 2014]]
* [[Ryszard Jurkowski]], Silver and Gold Cross of Merit, Polish architect
|-
* Jerzy Łucki, August 1995, Toronto, Canada
| [[Michał Kwiatkowski]] || 2014 || Polish road cyclist
* A.E.G.Jung, September 1995, Stellenbosch, South Africa
|-
* [[Marian Machowski]], Polish footballer and researcher<ref>{{cite news |last1=Filipiuk |first1=Jerzy |title=Zmarł były świetny piłkarz Marian Machowski. Grał w Nadwiślanie Kraków i Wiśle Kraków, wystąpił w reprezentacji Polski |trans-title=Former great footballer Marian Machowski has died. He played in Nadwiślana Kraków and Wisła Kraków, he played for the Polish national team |url=https://gazetakrakowska.pl/zmarl-byly-swietny-pilkarz-marian-machowski-gral-w-nadwislanie-krakow-i-wisle-krakow-wystapil-w-reprezentacji-polski-zdjecia/ar/c2-15984923 |access-date=6 January 2022 |work=Gazeta Krakowska |date=5 January 2022 |language=pl}}</ref>
| [[Andrzej Wrona]] || 27 October 2014 || [[volleyball player]], [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champion 2014]]
* Krzysztof Kazimierz Miller, 1964, architect, urbanist
|-
* [[Agnieszka Radwańska]], tennis player<ref name="sport.pl">{{cite web |url=http://www.sport.pl/celebrities/51,83535,14244838.html?i=3 |title= Sukces w kraju bez trawy. Janowicz, Kubot i Radwańska z Krzyżami Zasługi|website=www.sport.pl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203042734/http://www.sport.pl/celebrities/51%2C83535%2C14244838.html?i=3 |archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref>
| [[Paweł Zatorski]] || 27 October 2014 || [[volleyball player]], [[2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship|World Champion 2014]]
* [[Bronisława Rychter-Janowska]], 1939, Cracovian artist.<ref name="ipsb.nina">{{cite web |url= http://ipsb.nina.gov.pl/index.php/a/bronislawa-rychter-janowska |title= Bronisława Rychter-Janowska (1868–1953, malarka) |publisher= Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny |work= Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny |date= 2014 |access-date= 7 February 2015 |author= iPSB}}</ref>
|-
* [[Moses Schorr]], Rabbi, Polish historian, politician, bible scholar, assyriologist and orientalist
| [[Joanna Zawadzka]]|| 2 May 2014 || community activist living in Scotland, director of [[Polish Cultural Festival Association]]
* [[Stefania Skwarczyńska]], Polish theorist and historian of literature, theatrologist, full professor, honorary doctor of the [[University of Łódź]], World War II resistance fighter
|-
* [[Captain Raymond Delver Smith Carrington J.P.]], 1990, for distinguished and outstanding service to Poland and its people
| [[Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm]] || 20 June 2014 || U.S.-based writer and academic
* [[Henri Strzelecki]], 1990, co-founder of [[Henri Lloyd]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
|-
* [[Arthur Szyk]], 1931, Polish-Jewish fine artist, book illustrator, and political artist.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ungar|first1=Irvin|last2=Berenbaum|first2=Michael|last3=Freudenheim|first3=Tom L.|last4=Kettlewell|first4=James|title=Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art|date=2017|publisher=D Giles Limited|location=London|isbn=978-1-911282-09-9|page=224}}</ref>
| Katarzyna Maria Dziewanowska || 26 September 2013 || scientific research, University of Idaho
* [[Józef Weyssenhoff]], 1932, Polish writer, novelist, poet, literary critic, publisher.<ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |date=May 1932 |title=M.P. 1932 nr 123 poz. 155. Zarządzenie o nadaniu Złotego Krzyża Zasługi |url=http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WMP19321230155/O/M19320155.pdf |location=Warsaw |publisher=PREZYDENT RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ}}</ref>
|-
* [[Afanasij Poliszczuk]], 1946, veterinary service chief in the First Polish Army
| Elwira Grossman || August 2013 || Scotland
|-
| John Dodunski || March 2013 || New Zealand
|-
| Robert Dodunski || March 2013 || New Zealand
|-
| Bogdan Labecki || 2013 || <ref name="gazette.gc.ca" />
|-
| Margaret Scannell née Dodunski || March 2013 || New Zealand
|-
| Michal Kuleczka || 2013 || <ref name="gazette.gc.ca2">"Government House (Award to Canadians)". Canada Gazette. Vol. 147, No. 8 — 23 February 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013 from: http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2013/2013-02-23/html/gh-rg-eng.html</ref>
|-
|[[:hu:Szabó Máté (politológus)|Máté Szabó]]
|10 December 2012
|The Ambassador of Poland to Hungary, Roman Kowalski presented the award to recognize Máté Szabó 's merits in strengthening the protection of human rights as Ombudsman and for his work developing Polish-Hungarian relations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Szabó |first=Máté |date=2013 |title=Beszámoló Az Alapvető Jogok Biztosának és helyetteseinek 2012. évi tevékenységéről |url=https://www.ajbh.hu/documents/10180/1210221/AJBH+Besz%C3%A1mol%C3%B3+2012/630df714-cae4-45da-b43b-325c8e860f60?version=1.0 |access-date=30 October 2023 |website=ajbh.hu}}</ref>
|-
| Thomas Gabriel Grasza Esq || 11 November 2011 || postage stamp and coin designer and noted Canadian-Polish philatelist of four decades
|-
| [[Izabella Zielińska]] || 2011 || Polish pianist
|-
| Bronisław Oczkowski || 14 December 2010 || Melbourne, Australia<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sip.lex.pl/akty-prawne/mp-monitor-polski/nadanie-orderow-i-odznaczen-17696674|title = Nadanie orderów i odznaczeń. - M.P.2011.27.295}}</ref>
|-
| Captain Stefan-Joseph Camilleri || 23 January 2009 || Warsaw, for distinguished and outstanding service to Poland and its people
|-
| [[Geertjan Lassche]] || 2007 || Dutch reporter and documentary film maker
|-
| [[Tomasz Miśkiewicz]] || 2011 || Silver Cross of Merit 2006, mufti, for work with the immigrant and native Islamic Youth, Gold Cross of Merit 2011, for work with the Muslim minorities, and for interfaith dialogue
|-
|[[Edvard Kardelj]]
|1946
|<ref>{{Cite journal |date=24 October 1946 |title=Предаја високих пољских одликовања потпредседнику владе ФНРЈ Едварду Кардељу и руководиоцима НАродне Републике Словеније |url=https://istorijskenovine.unilib.rs/view/index.html#panel:pp&#124;issue:UB_00064_19461024&#124;page:1 |journal=Borba |language=sh |pages=1}}</ref>
|-
|[[Maciej Klich]]
|2005
|Polish historian, graphic artist, and a former [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] [[Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1989)|Polish independence diaspora activist]]
|-
| [[Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska]] || 2005 || Polish computer scientist<ref name=order>{{cite web | url=https://www.computerworld.pl/news/Ordery-za-IT,85617.html | author = Andrzej Maciejewski | date = 25 November 2005| title=Ordery za IT |trans-title=Orders for IT | publisher = [[Computerworld]] |language=pl}}</ref>
|-
| [[Agata Mroz-Olszewska]] || 2005 || volleyball player, double European champion team member, 2003 and 2005
|-
| [[Adam Skorek]] || 2004 ||
|-
| Ryszard Antoni Kuśmierczyk || August 2002 || Engineer and community leader based ub [[Windsor, Ontario]], Canada
|-
| [[Alojzy Nowak]] || 2002 || <ref>{{Cite web|title=Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 20 września 2002 r. o nadaniu orderów i odznaczeń.|url=http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20020610858|access-date=18 June 2020|website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}</ref>
|-
| Jerzy Zralski || 2000 || II WW veteran and writer.<ref name="gazette.gc.ca">"Government House (Award to Canadians)". Canada Gazette. Vol. 134, No. 43 — 21 October 2000. from: www.http://publications.gc.ca/gazette/archives/p1/2000/2000-10-21/pdf/g1-13443.pdf</ref>
|-
| Stanisław Nosal || 1979 || Polish Colonel of the 5th Rocket Artillery Battalion in [[Modlin Fortress]], Poland.
|-
| [[Witold Bełza]] || 1938 || Polish librarian, writer, publicist and cultural activist.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://biblioteka.bydgoszcz.pl/biblioteka-glowna/patron/#:~:text=Odznaczony%20Z%C5%82otym%20Krzy%C5%BCem%20Zas%C5%82ugi%20(1938,Miejskiej%20Biblioteki%20Publicznej%20w%20Bydgoszczy. |title=PATRON – WITOLD BEŁZA |last= |first= |date=2021 |website=biblioteka.bydgoszcz.pl |publisher=biblioteka.bydgoszcz |access-date=29 January 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Michael Biegler]] || || German head coach of the [[Poland men's national handball team|Poland national handball team]]
|-
| Jan Bujak || July 1984 || Corporate owner
|-
| [[Stanisław Sylwester Alfonzy Grodyński]] || 1939 || Polish Governor (Starost), military intelligence officer, lawyer.<ref>The Grodyński Brigade, Andrzej ST Grodyński 1977/2012</ref>
|-
| [[Stanisław Horno-Popławski]] || 1952 || Polish [[painting|painter]], [[Sculpture|sculptor]] and [[Pedagogy|pedagogue]].<ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |date=22 July 1952 |title=M.P. 1952 nr 70 poz. 1078. Zarządzenie o nadaniu Złotego Krzyża Zasługi |url=http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WMP19520701078/O/M19521078.pdf |location=Warsaw |publisher=PREZYDENT RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ}}</ref>
|-
| [[Ryszard Jurkowski]] || || Silver and Gold Cross of Merit, Polish architect
|-
|-
| [[Zbigniew Janowicz]] || || Gold Cross of Merit, polish professor <ref>{{Cite journal |date=2012 |title=Prof. zw. dr Zbigniew Janowicz – wspomnienie o znakomitym znawcy prawa i procedury administracyjnej |url=https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/rpeis/article/view/16200/16033 |journal=Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny I Socjologiczny |language=pl |pages=1}}</ref>
|-
| Jerzy Łucki || August 1995 || Toronto, Canada
|-
| A.E.G.Jung || September 1995 || Stellenbosch, South Africa
|-
| [[Marian Machowski]] || || Polish footballer and researcher<ref>{{cite news |last1=Filipiuk |first1=Jerzy |title=Zmarł były świetny piłkarz Marian Machowski. Grał w Nadwiślanie Kraków i Wiśle Kraków, wystąpił w reprezentacji Polski |trans-title=Former great footballer Marian Machowski has died. He played in Nadwiślana Kraków and Wisła Kraków, he played for the Poland national team |url=https://gazetakrakowska.pl/zmarl-byly-swietny-pilkarz-marian-machowski-gral-w-nadwislanie-krakow-i-wisle-krakow-wystapil-w-reprezentacji-polski-zdjecia/ar/c2-15984923 |access-date=6 January 2022 |work=Gazeta Krakowska |date=5 January 2022 |language=pl}}</ref>
|-
| Krzysztof Kazimierz Miller || 1964 || architect, urbanist
|-
| [[Agnieszka Radwańska]] || || tennis player<ref name="sport.pl">{{cite web |url=http://www.sport.pl/celebrities/51,83535,14244838.html?i=3 |title= Sukces w kraju bez trawy. Janowicz, Kubot i Radwańska z Krzyżami Zasługi|website=www.sport.pl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203042734/http://www.sport.pl/celebrities/51%2C83535%2C14244838.html?i=3 |archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref>
|-
| [[Bronisława Rychter-Janowska]] || 1939 || Cracovian artist.<ref name="ipsb.nina">{{cite web |url= http://ipsb.nina.gov.pl/index.php/a/bronislawa-rychter-janowska |title= Bronisława Rychter-Janowska (1868–1953, malarka) |publisher= Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny |work= Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny |date= 2014 |access-date= 7 February 2015 |author= iPSB}}</ref>
|-
| [[Moses Schorr]] || || Rabbi, Polish historian, politician, bible scholar, assyriologist and orientalist
|-
| [[Stefania Skwarczyńska]] || || Polish theorist and historian of literature, theatrologist, full professor, honorary doctor of the [[University of Łódź]], World War II resistance fighter
|-
| [[Captain Raymond Delver Smith Carrington J.P.]]|| 1990 || for distinguished and outstanding service to Poland and its people
|-
| [[Henri Strzelecki]] || 1990 || co-founder of [[Henri Lloyd]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
|-
| [[Arthur Szyk]] || 1931 || Polish-Jewish fine artist, book illustrator, and political artist.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ungar|first1=Irvin|last2=Berenbaum|first2=Michael|last3=Freudenheim|first3=Tom L.|last4=Kettlewell|first4=James|title=Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art|date=2017|publisher=D Giles Limited|location=London|isbn=978-1-911282-09-9|page=224}}</ref>
|-
| [[Józef Weyssenhoff]] || 1932 || Polish writer, novelist, poet, literary critic, publisher.<ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |date=May 1932 |title=M.P. 1932 nr 123 poz. 155. Zarządzenie o nadaniu Złotego Krzyża Zasługi |url=http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WMP19321230155/O/M19320155.pdf |location=Warsaw |publisher=PREZYDENT RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ}}</ref>
|-
|Edward Lisiowski
|1974
|Mayor of Wojszyn.
|-
| [[Afanasij Poliszczuk]] || 1946 || veterinary service chief in the First Polish Army
|-
| [[Alojzy Walentego Zygmunt]] || 29 November 1972 || For fifteen years of uninterrupted and distinguished work in the mining industry
|}


=== Silver Cross of Merit ===
=== Silver Cross of Merit ===

{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Silver Cross of Merit
|+ Silver Cross of Merit
|-
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| [[Maria Boniecka]] || 1937 || work with illiterate adults
| [[Maria Boniecka]] || 1937 || work with illiterate adults
|-
|-
| [[Francis Czyzewski|Francis K. Czyzewski]] || 4 July 1939 || writer, astronomer, meteorologist, photographer, playwright, WSBT Polish Hour radio program host, life member of the solar division of the American Variable Star Observers at Harvard College Observatory (1951); former president, Polish-American Central Civic Committee; staff writer, South Bend Tribune; South Bend, Indiana
| [[Francis Czyzewski|Francis K. Czyzewski]]|| 4 July 1939 || writer, astronomer, meteorologist, photographer, playwright, WSBT Polish Hour radio program host, life member of the solar division of the American Variable Star Observers at Harvard College Observatory (1951); former president, Polish-American Central Civic Committee; staff writer, South Bend Tribune; South Bend, Indiana
|-
|-
| [[Adela Dankowska]] || 1970 || Polish glider pilot
| [[Adela Dankowska]] || 1970 || Polish glider pilot
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| [[Helena Gąsienica Daniel]] || || Olympic cross-country skier<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sport.onet.pl/zimowe/biegi-narciarskie/nie-zyje-helena-gasienica-daniel-lewandowska/ln645 |title=Nie żyje Helena Gąsienica Daniel-Lewandowska |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=25 November 2013|website=[[onet.pl]]|language=pl |trans-title=Helena Gąsienica Daniel-Lewandowska is dead |access-date=9 January 2019}}</ref>
| [[Helena Gąsienica Daniel]] || || Olympic cross-country skier<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sport.onet.pl/zimowe/biegi-narciarskie/nie-zyje-helena-gasienica-daniel-lewandowska/ln645 |title=Nie żyje Helena Gąsienica Daniel-Lewandowska |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=25 November 2013|website=[[onet.pl]]|language=pl |trans-title=Helena Gąsienica Daniel-Lewandowska is dead |access-date=9 January 2019}}</ref>
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| [[Marcin Pawel Grzadka]] || || Harcmistrz, co-founder of [[YPCPA]].<ref name="YPCPA">{{cite news |first=Marcin |last=Grzadka |title=Co-founder of, first President, and Chairman of the Young Polish Canadian Professionals Association |url=http://ypcpa.ca/about-us/board-of-directors/ |work=[[YPCPA]] |date=12 November 2013 |access-date=12 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113091249/http://ypcpa.ca/about-us/board-of-directors/ |archive-date=13 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> & chairman of [[Quo Vadis Leadership Conference]].<ref name="QVC">{{cite news |first=Marcin |last=Grzadka |title= Chairman of Quo Vadis 3 – International leadership conference, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – May 2011. Advisor to 2012 conference in Calgary, Canada & Chicago, USA. |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1sx-cJpXMg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/X1sx-cJpXMg |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live|work= [[QVC]] |date=12 November 2013 |access-date=12 November 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> – Canada – November 2013
| [[Marcin Pawel Grzadka]]|| November 2013 || Harcmistrz, co-founder of [[YPCPA]].<ref name="YPCPA">{{cite news |first=Marcin |last=Grzadka |title=Co-founder of, first President, and Chairman of the Young Polish Canadian Professionals Association |url=http://ypcpa.ca/about-us/board-of-directors/ |work=[[YPCPA]] |date=12 November 2013 |access-date=12 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113091249/http://ypcpa.ca/about-us/board-of-directors/ |archive-date=13 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> & chairman of [[Quo Vadis Leadership Conference]].<ref name="QVC">{{cite news |first=Marcin |last=Grzadka |title= Chairman of Quo Vadis 3 – International leadership conference, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – May 2011. Advisor to 2012 conference in Calgary, Canada & Chicago, USA. |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1sx-cJpXMg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/X1sx-cJpXMg |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live|work= [[QVC]] |date=12 November 2013 |access-date=12 November 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> – Canada
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| [[Rudolf Gundlach]] || || Gundlach tank periscope inventor
| [[Rudolf Gundlach]] || || Gundlach tank periscope inventor
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| Filip Slipaczek || May 2014 || UK<ref>"Polish Embassy London (Awarded for Polish-Jewish dialogue)". Retrieved 15 July 2014 from: http://www.londyn.msz.gov.pl/en/c/MOBILE/news/silver_cross_of_merit__for_filip_slipaczek</ref>
| Filip Slipaczek || May 2014 || UK<ref>"Polish Embassy London (Awarded for Polish-Jewish dialogue)". Retrieved 15 July 2014 from: http://www.londyn.msz.gov.pl/en/c/MOBILE/news/silver_cross_of_merit__for_filip_slipaczek</ref>
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| [[Adam Świerkocz]] || 2005 || Polish brigadier general
| [[Adam Świerkocz]]|| 2005 || Polish brigadier general
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| [[Jerzy Troszczynski]] || || photographer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fototeka.fn.org.pl/en/custom/info/39/65/24/3/jerzy-troszczynski.html#NaN |title=Jerzy Troszczyński |website=fototeka.fn.org.pl |publisher=National Film Archive |access-date=15 October 2017}}</ref>
| [[Jerzy Troszczynski]] || || photographer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fototeka.fn.org.pl/en/custom/info/39/65/24/3/jerzy-troszczynski.html#NaN |title=Jerzy Troszczyński |website=fototeka.fn.org.pl |publisher=National Film Archive |access-date=15 October 2017}}</ref>
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| [[Krzysztof Wojciechowski]] || August 2013 || Poland<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Krzysztof Wojciechowski, Direktor des Collegium Polonicum Slubice, mit Verdienstkreuz der Republik Polen ausgezeichnet |url=http://oderpost.de/index.php/component/k2/item/677-dr-krzysztof-wojciechowski-direktor-des-collegium-polonicum-slubice-mit-verdienstkreuz-der-republik-polen-ausgezeichnet |access-date=26 September 2017 |agency=OderPost |date=21 August 2013}}</ref>
| [[Krzysztof Wojciechowski]]|| August 2013 || Poland<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Krzysztof Wojciechowski, Direktor des Collegium Polonicum Slubice, mit Verdienstkreuz der Republik Polen ausgezeichnet |url=http://oderpost.de/index.php/component/k2/item/677-dr-krzysztof-wojciechowski-direktor-des-collegium-polonicum-slubice-mit-verdienstkreuz-der-republik-polen-ausgezeichnet |access-date=26 September 2017 |agency=OderPost |date=21 August 2013}}</ref>
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| Wlodzimierz Mieczyslaw Wojciechowski || 1973 || Polish soldier and resistance fighter, London
| Wlodzimierz Mieczyslaw Wojciechowski || 1973 || Polish soldier and resistance fighter, London
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| Czesław s. Ignacego Przybylak || 1956 || decorated Polish humanitarian activist, decorated worker of the state and Holocaust Survivor
| Czesław s. Ignacego Przybylak || 1956 || decorated Polish humanitarian activist, decorated worker of the state and Holocaust Survivor
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| [[Jacek Banasiak]] || || Professor and DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering at the [[University of Pretoria]] 2014<ref>{{Cite web |title=Banasiak |url=https://africanscientists.africa/business-directory/banasiak/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=African Scientists Directory |language=en-US}}</ref>
| [[Jacek Banasiak]] || 2014 || Professor and DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering at the [[University of Pretoria]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Banasiak |url=https://africanscientists.africa/business-directory/banasiak/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=African Scientists Directory |language=en-US}}</ref>
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|[[Maciej Żółtowski]]
|2002
|Polish conductor and composer
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| [[Alex Dancyg]] || 2007 || Historian and advocate of Polish-Israeli relations<ref>{{Cite web |last=S |first=Marcin |date=2023-11-01 |title=President Duda meets son of kidnapped historian Alex Dancyg |url=https://polanddaily24.com/president-duda-meets-son-of-kidnapped-historian-alex-dancyg/politics/32514 |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=PolandDaily24.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
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=== Bronze Cross of Merit ===
=== Bronze Cross of Merit ===


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| Tomasz Trembowski || 2013 || Canada<ref>"Government House (Award to Canadians)". Canada Gazette. Vol. 147, No. 4 — 26 January 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2013 from: http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2013/2013-01-26/html/gh-rg-eng.html#c101</ref>
| Tomasz Trembowski || 2013 || Canada<ref>"Government House (Award to Canadians)". Canada Gazette. Vol. 147, No. 4 — 26 January 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2013 from: http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2013/2013-01-26/html/gh-rg-eng.html#c101</ref>
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| [[Dariusz Jemielniak]] || 2018 || <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art,317,odznaczenia-dla-zasluzonych-w-dzialalnosci-na-rzecz-rozwoju-nauki-.html |title=Odznaczenia dla zasłużonych w działalności na rzecz rozwoju nauki |date=8 October 2018|language=pl|accessdate=2022-06-18}}</ref>
| [[Dariusz Jemielniak]] || 2018 || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art,317,odznaczenia-dla-zasluzonych-w-dzialalnosci-na-rzecz-rozwoju-nauki-.html|title=Odznaczenia dla zasłużonych w działalności na rzecz rozwoju nauki|date=8 October 2018|language=pl|accessdate=2022-06-18|archive-date=26 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526170324/https://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art,317,odznaczenia-dla-zasluzonych-w-dzialalnosci-na-rzecz-rozwoju-nauki-.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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Latest revision as of 02:43, 15 September 2024

Cross of Merit
Krzyż Zasługi
Current version of the Gold Cross of Merit
TypeMedal awarded in three grades: Gold, Silver, and Bronze
Awarded forExemplary public service or humanitarian work that goes above and beyond the call of duty
Country Poland
Presented bythe President of Poland
Claspsdenotes subsequent award
StatusCurrently awarded
Established23 June 1923
First awarded11 November 1923
Precedence
Next (higher)Cross of Merit with Swords
Next (lower)Military Cross of Merit with Swords,
Air Force Cross of Merit with Swords,
Navy Cross of Merit with Swords

The Cross of Merit (Polish: Krzyż Zasługi) is a Polish civil state decoration established on 23 June 1923, to recognize services to the state.[1]

History

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At the time of its establishment in 1923, the Cross of Merit was the highest civilian award in Poland. It was awarded to citizens who went beyond the call of duty in their work for the country and society as a whole. May be awarded twice in each grade to the same person.[2]

  • Gold Cross of Merit issued by the People's Republic
    Gold Cross of Merit issued by the People's Republic
  • Silver Cross of Merit issued by the People's Republic
    Silver Cross of Merit issued by the People's Republic

The Order

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The Order has three grades:

1. Gold Cross of Merit
2. Silver Cross of Merit
3. Bronze Cross of Merit

Recipients

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Gold Cross of Merit

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Gold Cross of Merit
Name Date Notes
Przemysław Krych July 2024 for exemplary public and charity service, Poland[3]
Edward Karpinski January 2023 For exemplary public service in the Polish community in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Józefa Bramowska 1939 Politician
Ewa Hojna 13 May 2022 Director of Polish School Cultural Association (ACEP), Spain
Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2021 chess grandmaster[4]
Rick Sahar 2020 For building good relations through shared events within the Polish-Jewish communities in Wellington, New Zealand
Wanda Paulina Gluszek 2016 political activist, poet, Chicago, Illinois
Michał Korwin-Szymanowski, also known as Michel Korwin 2015 Montréal, Canada
John P. Lynch 3 November 2014 CEO and founder of Lynka[5]
Philippe Blain 27 October 2014 coach of Poland men's national volleyball team – World Champions 2014
Fabian Drzyzga 27 October 2014 volleyball player, World Champion 2014
Mateusz Mika 27 October 2014 volleyball player, World Champion 2014
Karol Kłos 27 October 2014 volleyball player, World Champion 2014
Michał Kwiatkowski 2014 Polish road cyclist
Andrzej Wrona 27 October 2014 volleyball player, World Champion 2014
Paweł Zatorski 27 October 2014 volleyball player, World Champion 2014
Joanna Zawadzka 2 May 2014 community activist living in Scotland, director of Polish Cultural Festival Association
Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm 20 June 2014 U.S.-based writer and academic
Katarzyna Maria Dziewanowska 26 September 2013 scientific research, University of Idaho
Elwira Grossman August 2013 Scotland
John Dodunski March 2013 New Zealand
Robert Dodunski March 2013 New Zealand
Bogdan Labecki 2013 [6]
Margaret Scannell née Dodunski March 2013 New Zealand
Michal Kuleczka 2013 [7]
Máté Szabó 10 December 2012 The Ambassador of Poland to Hungary, Roman Kowalski presented the award to recognize Máté Szabó 's merits in strengthening the protection of human rights as Ombudsman and for his work developing Polish-Hungarian relations.[8]
Thomas Gabriel Grasza Esq 11 November 2011 postage stamp and coin designer and noted Canadian-Polish philatelist of four decades
Izabella Zielińska 2011 Polish pianist
Bronisław Oczkowski 14 December 2010 Melbourne, Australia[9]
Captain Stefan-Joseph Camilleri 23 January 2009 Warsaw, for distinguished and outstanding service to Poland and its people
Geertjan Lassche 2007 Dutch reporter and documentary film maker
Tomasz Miśkiewicz 2011 Silver Cross of Merit 2006, mufti, for work with the immigrant and native Islamic Youth, Gold Cross of Merit 2011, for work with the Muslim minorities, and for interfaith dialogue
Edvard Kardelj 1946 [10]
Maciej Klich 2005 Polish historian, graphic artist, and a former anti-communist Polish independence diaspora activist
Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska 2005 Polish computer scientist[11]
Agata Mroz-Olszewska 2005 volleyball player, double European champion team member, 2003 and 2005
Adam Skorek 2004
Ryszard Antoni Kuśmierczyk August 2002 Engineer and community leader based ub Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Alojzy Nowak 2002 [12]
Jerzy Zralski 2000 II WW veteran and writer.[6]
Stanisław Nosal 1979 Polish Colonel of the 5th Rocket Artillery Battalion in Modlin Fortress, Poland.
Witold Bełza 1938 Polish librarian, writer, publicist and cultural activist.[13]
Michael Biegler German head coach of the Poland national handball team
Jan Bujak July 1984 Corporate owner
Stanisław Sylwester Alfonzy Grodyński 1939 Polish Governor (Starost), military intelligence officer, lawyer.[14]
Stanisław Horno-Popławski 1952 Polish painter, sculptor and pedagogue.[15]
Ryszard Jurkowski Silver and Gold Cross of Merit, Polish architect
Zbigniew Janowicz Gold Cross of Merit, polish professor [16]
Jerzy Łucki August 1995 Toronto, Canada
A.E.G.Jung September 1995 Stellenbosch, South Africa
Marian Machowski Polish footballer and researcher[17]
Krzysztof Kazimierz Miller 1964 architect, urbanist
Agnieszka Radwańska tennis player[18]
Bronisława Rychter-Janowska 1939 Cracovian artist.[19]
Moses Schorr Rabbi, Polish historian, politician, bible scholar, assyriologist and orientalist
Stefania Skwarczyńska Polish theorist and historian of literature, theatrologist, full professor, honorary doctor of the University of Łódź, World War II resistance fighter
Captain Raymond Delver Smith Carrington J.P. 1990 for distinguished and outstanding service to Poland and its people
Henri Strzelecki 1990 co-founder of Henri Lloyd.[citation needed]
Arthur Szyk 1931 Polish-Jewish fine artist, book illustrator, and political artist.[20]
Józef Weyssenhoff 1932 Polish writer, novelist, poet, literary critic, publisher.[21]
Edward Lisiowski 1974 Mayor of Wojszyn.
Afanasij Poliszczuk 1946 veterinary service chief in the First Polish Army
Alojzy Walentego Zygmunt 29 November 1972 For fifteen years of uninterrupted and distinguished work in the mining industry

Silver Cross of Merit

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Silver Cross of Merit
Name Date Notes
Maria Boniecka 1937 work with illiterate adults
Francis K. Czyzewski 4 July 1939 writer, astronomer, meteorologist, photographer, playwright, WSBT Polish Hour radio program host, life member of the solar division of the American Variable Star Observers at Harvard College Observatory (1951); former president, Polish-American Central Civic Committee; staff writer, South Bend Tribune; South Bend, Indiana
Adela Dankowska 1970 Polish glider pilot
Grzegorz Fryc September 2014 New York[22]
Helena Gąsienica Daniel Olympic cross-country skier[23]
Marcin Pawel Grzadka November 2013 Harcmistrz, co-founder of YPCPA.[24] & chairman of Quo Vadis Leadership Conference.[25] – Canada
Rudolf Gundlach Gundlach tank periscope inventor
Robert Makłowicz 2004 journalist and historian, notable for promoting the Polish cuisine
Tomasz Moczerniuk September 2014 New York[22]
Witold Pilecki 1938 Soldier
Filip Slipaczek May 2014 UK[26]
Adam Świerkocz 2005 Polish brigadier general
Jerzy Troszczynski photographer[27]
Krzysztof Wojciechowski August 2013 Poland[28]
Wlodzimierz Mieczyslaw Wojciechowski 1973 Polish soldier and resistance fighter, London
Czesław s. Ignacego Przybylak 1956 decorated Polish humanitarian activist, decorated worker of the state and Holocaust Survivor
Jacek Banasiak 2014 Professor and DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering at the University of Pretoria[29]
Maciej Żółtowski 2002 Polish conductor and composer
Alex Dancyg 2007 Historian and advocate of Polish-Israeli relations[30]

Bronze Cross of Merit

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Bronze Cross of Merit
Name Date Notes
Stefan Ficner 1945 Great Grandfather, Patriot, Golina, Polska
Stanisław Łukaszewicz 1944 Bronze Cross of Merit with Swords, Sargeant 10 Dragoons, 1 Polish Armoured Division, 1 Polish Corps for action at Falaise Gap, France 1944[31]
Piotr Paweł Morta 1998 Also Silver Cross of Merit – 2010
Marguerite Ettienette Andrée Mouton – née Guillemin 1950s Educator; Soissons, France
Elżbieta Smereka 3 May 1987 For meritorious social services
Tomasz Trembowski 2013 Canada[32]
Dariusz Jemielniak 2018 [33]

See also

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References

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  2. ^ "Krzyż Zasługi" (in Polish). 14 November 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Dziennik Urzedowy RP" (PDF) (in Polish).
  4. ^ "Jan-Krzysztof Duda odznaczony Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi. "Nikt nie osiąga sukcesu sam"" (in Polish). Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  5. ^ "News". Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
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  10. ^ "Предаја високих пољских одликовања потпредседнику владе ФНРЈ Едварду Кардељу и руководиоцима НАродне Републике Словеније". Borba (in Serbo-Croatian): 1. 24 October 1946.
  11. ^ Andrzej Maciejewski (25 November 2005). "Ordery za IT" [Orders for IT] (in Polish). Computerworld.
  12. ^ "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 20 września 2002 r. o nadaniu orderów i odznaczeń". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  13. ^ "PATRON – WITOLD BEŁZA". biblioteka.bydgoszcz.pl. biblioteka.bydgoszcz. 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  14. ^ The Grodyński Brigade, Andrzej ST Grodyński 1977/2012
  15. ^ M.P. 1952 nr 70 poz. 1078. Zarządzenie o nadaniu Złotego Krzyża Zasługi (PDF). Warsaw: PREZYDENT RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ. 22 July 1952.
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  18. ^ "Sukces w kraju bez trawy. Janowicz, Kubot i Radwańska z Krzyżami Zasługi". www.sport.pl. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013.
  19. ^ iPSB (2014). "Bronisława Rychter-Janowska (1868–1953, malarka)". Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny. Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  20. ^ Ungar, Irvin; Berenbaum, Michael; Freudenheim, Tom L.; Kettlewell, James (2017). Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art. London: D Giles Limited. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-911282-09-9.
  21. ^ M.P. 1932 nr 123 poz. 155. Zarządzenie o nadaniu Złotego Krzyża Zasługi (PDF). Warsaw: PREZYDENT RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ. May 1932.
  22. ^ a b "Awards at the Consulate General of Poland in New York". Retrieved 24 September 2014 from: http://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art,1369,odznaczenia-w-konsulacie-generalnym-rp-w-nowym-jorku.html Archived 15 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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  30. ^ S, Marcin (1 November 2023). "President Duda meets son of kidnapped historian Alex Dancyg". PolandDaily24.com. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
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