Polish Heritage Society
Exists to remember, record and propagate among the wider British public the contribution of Poles to our shared, common cultural and historical heritage within the United Kingdom.
4 memorials
1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade
A brigade under the command of Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski, created in Scotland, with the exclusive mission to drop into occupied Poland in order to help liberate the country. The British go...
1 memorial
Walenty Pytel
Leading metal sculptor of birds and beasts. Born Poland and came to England aged 5. His Wikipedia page and his own website show a number of other works, which have a lovely sense of joy and lightness.
1 memorial
Count Edward Raczynski
Polish statesman, Ambassador to Great Britain. At external site Rafal Heydel-Mankoo writes: A marvellous monocled character (he married for the third time at the age of 99) he held the dubious hon...
1 memorial
Dame Marie Rambert
Ballet dancer who had a great influence on ballet in Britain. Born Cyvia Ramberg in Poland. Arrived in England in 1914. Married Ashley Dukes in 1918, a marriage which lasted until his death. Founde...
2 memorials
Sir Joseph Rotblat
Born Warsaw. gained a doctorate in physics in 1939 and then came to the UK but could not get his wife out and she died in a concentration camp. In 1944 he joined the Manhatten Project to develop nu...
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Dorota Rynkiewicz
Dorota K. Rynkiewicz was born on 30 April 1981 in Elblag, Poland. On 25 December 2005 she married her husband, Andrzej W. Rynkiewicz, and they had two children Nicole Rynkiewicz who was born on 13 ...
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General Wladyslaw Sikorski
Prime Minister of the war-time London-based Polish Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish armed forces. In his 1970 play, Soldiers, Rolf Hochhuth accuses Churchill of murdering Sikorski. ...
2 memorials
Marie Sklodowska-Curie
From LSHTM: "Marie Sklodowska-Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences: physics and chemistr...
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Adrianna Skryzypiec
Killed, aged 31, by the lorry driver, John Lashbrook of Sittingbourne, Kent, who said he was unaware of the collision until six weeks after the event. Adrianna moved to London from Poland six years...
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