Andrzej Sariusz-Skąpski

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Andrzej Sariusz-Skąpski (born November 20, 1937 in Cracow , † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk , Russia ) has been a director of the Association of Victims of the Katyn Massacre since 2006 .

Life

Sariusz-Skąpski's father, who was a prosecutor in the Ministry of Justice in Warsaw before World War II , was murdered in Katyn.

Andrzej Sariusz-Skąpski was the chairman of the " Patriotic Movement of National Revival " ( Patriotyczny Ruch Odrodzenia Narodowego , PRON) in Biały Dunajec in the Powiat Tatrzański during the time of the People's Republic of Poland . From 1996 to 2003 he was vice-president of the Association of Victims' Relatives of Katyn ( Federacja Rodzin Katyńskich ), since 2006 he was its president.

On April 10, 2010, Sariusz-Skąpski was part of a Polish delegation headed by President Lech Kaczyński , who was to travel to the memorial in Russia on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Katyn massacre. However, in a plane crash of the delegation near the Smolensk-Nord military airfield , he was killed along with other high-ranking representatives of Poland.

Posthumously Sariusz-Skąpski was the Knight's Cross of the 16 April 2010 Order of Polonia Restituta (Krzyź Kawalerski Orderu Rebirth of Poland) awarded.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ TVP Krakow: W katastrofie zginęli Małopolanie. ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tvp.pl
  2. ↑ http://www.dziennik.pl/katastrofa-smolensk/ofiary-katastrofy/article584362/Andrzej_Skapski.html (link not available) Dziennik.pl via Andrzej Sariusz-Skąpski
  3. ↑ Biuro Prasowe Kancelarii Sejmu (Press Office of the Sejm): Komunikat No. 163 / VI kad. , accessed April 18, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Sariusz-Skąpski, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish association president
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2010
Place of death Smolensk , Russia