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DNH 2021 DNH 2021 · 16/06/2022
· Politics

Polish president recognised Hungarians saving Poles in WW2

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Polish President Andrzej Duda awarded four Hungarians post mortem with the Virtus et Fraternitas medal in recognition of their efforts to help Polish refugees during the second world war, in a ceremony held in the park of the presidential Belweder Palace in Warsaw on Wednesday.

The honours were handed over to the descendants of Margit Károlyi, Erzsébet Szapáry, Antal Szapáry and Edit Weiss.

Countess Margit Károlyi was founder of the Hungarian-Polish Committee for Refugees. She personally received refugees from Poland and

made arrangements for their accommodation and education for their children.

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Countess Erzsébet Szapáry and her brother Antal accommodated the first Polish refugees and helped them leave Hungary for Western Europe. Erzsebet was also active in rescuing orphaned Jewish children from Poland.

Edit Weiss, the daughter of industrialist Manfred Weiss,

helped Polish refugees to travel on to Iraq and France, and saved many Polish Jews from deportation.

During the war, nearly

120,000 Poles fled to Hungary and found shelter across the country,

the Hungarian-Polish committee playing a crucial role in assisting them.

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Source: MTI

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  1. The Judge says:
    16/06/2022 at 18:46

    Budapest has the shoes memorial near the Parliament building to show the shame of what Hungary did inWW2 to innocent people. Poland is in denial to this day. This mutual back scratching is not impressive. Both countries were complicit in the holocaust with Hungary being particularly enthusiastic about sending poor souls to their death, one way or another. This latest stunt by the President Dud(a) is a continuation of this failure to accept some blame for genocide. Disgraceful.

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