Polish Home Army veterans honored by Consul General
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Shades of L.A. Photo Collection;
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Shades of L.A. is an archive of photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were chosen from family albums and include daily life, social organizations, work, personal and holiday celebrations, and migration and immigration activities. Made possible and accessible through the generous support of the Security Pacific National Bank, Sunlaw Cogeneration Partners, Photo Friends, California Council for the Humanities, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction. Andrew Nizynski led an eventful life. He was born in Gdynia, Poland, in 1924 and served in the Polish Home Army in World War 2. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 and was a prisoner of war in Germany. He went to London in 1946 and married his wife Danuta in 1949. She had also been a German POW. They came to L.A. in 1951 and raised three children. Andrew worked as an electronics engineer and computer memory systems specialist. He died in 2013 at the age of 89; Danuta died three years later. Polish Home Army veterans are pictured with medals after their first formal decoration by the Consul General of Poland in Los Angeles, Jan Szewc, in 1993. From left to right: Gena Kliszewska,a scout in the underground unit and Andrew Nizynski's unit; Colonel Marian Kaminski, regiment commander; Zbyszek Galezewski, company commander of field unit; George Pujdak, courier who was arrested by Gestapo and imprisoned in Auschwitz; Andrew Pleszczynski, infantry officer who was arrested by Gestapo and imprisoned in Auschwitz; and Andrew Nizynski, Baszta Battalion unit leader and scout who was in the POW camp Altengrabow.
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