Zofia Korbońska

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Birth Date:
10.05.1915
Death date:
16.08.2010
Length of life:
95
Days since birth:
39808
Years since birth:
108
Days since death:
5011
Years since death:
13
Person's maiden name:
Zofia Ristau
Categories:
Guerilla, Journalist, Public figure, Victim of repression (genocide) of the Soviet regime
Nationality:
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Cemetery:
Panthéon des grands Polonais

Zofia Korbońska, née Ristau (10 May 1915 in Warsaw – 16 August 2010 in Washington, D.C.) was a Polish resistance fighter and journalist.

She was born in Warsaw and graduated from the Maria Konopnicka High School and School of Political Sciences there. In 1938 she married a lawyer and Polish People's Party politician Stefan Korboński. During World War II, in 1941, she helped to organize the underground radio station, which sent the coded radio transmissions to the Polish government in exile. Her dispatches spread the news about German atrocities committed in Poland. As a member of Armia Krajowa, Korbońska eventually took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. In June 1945, she was arrested by NKVD together with her husband. They were released after the creation of the Provisional Government of National Unity. In 1947, when her husband was in danger of another arrest, they fled together to Sweden hiding in a ship transporting coal. Since November 1947, they lived in the United States, where she worked in the Voice of America and Polish American Congress.

In 2006 she was given the title of honorary citizen of the Capital City of Warsaw. President of Poland Lech Kaczyński awarded her the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. She struggled with illness for a few years before her death on 16 August 2010. She was buried in the Polish Cemetery in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Source: wikipedia.org

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Stefan KorbońskiStefan KorbońskiHusband02.03.190123.04.1989

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