Polish people of World War II

264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)

Polish-Jewish educator and physician (1878–1942)

Soviet and Polish military commander (1896-1968)

Polish politician and leader of Poland (1947–1956)

Polish politician, president of Poland from 1939 to 1947 (1885-1947)

Catholic cardinal (1914-2011)

Polish officer (1865-1947)

Polish doctor

Polish politician (1892–1974)

Polish diplomat (1888-1960)

Polish singer (1916–2007)

Polish Catholic priest, missionary and beati (1904–1974)

Jewish-Polish politician (1895-1943)

Polish bishop (1876–1943)

Polish consular officer, vice consul of the Republic of Poland in Riga and Bern, Holocaust rescuer

Polish politician and diplomat (1891–1963)

Polish historian (1885-1975)

Polish poet (1909–1988)

Polish-Jewish artist (1894–1951)

Ukrainian bishop, Blessed (1877–1949)

Officer of the Polish Army, writer (1922-1998)

Juliusz Kühl

Polish diplomat

Polish politician

Polish bishop, politician and activist (1875-1967)

Polish politician

Goralenvolk was a geopolitical term invented by the German Nazis in World War II in reference to the Goral highlander population of Podhale region in the south of Poland near the Slovak border. The Germans postulated a separate nationality for people of that region in an effort to extract them from the Polish citizenry during their occupation of Poland's highlands. The term Goralenvolk was a neologism derived from the Polish word Górale (the Highlanders) commonly referring to the ethnic group living in the Beskid and Tatra mountains. In an attempt to make the Gorals collaborate with the S

Polish politician (1887-1951)

Polish botanist (1901-1996)

Polish politician (1885–1964)

Polish pianist and porter of order (1934-2014)

Polish officer (1914-1998)

Holocaust survivor, Irgun guerrilla; lawyer, attorney, activist, essayist, memoirist

Polish socialist (1886-1976)