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Henryk Sławik

1894 - 1944

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Henryk Sławik (16 July 1894 – 23 August 1944) was a Polish politician in the interwar period, social worker, activist, and diplomat, who during World War II helped save over 30,000 Polish refugees, including 5,000 Polish Jews in Budapest, Hungary, by giving them false Polish passports with Catholic designation. He was executed with some of his fellow Polish activists on order of Reichsführer SS in concentration camp Gusen on 23 August 1944. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henryk Sławik is the 13,734th most popular politician (down from 13,153rd in 2019), the 890th most popular biography from Poland (down from 864th in 2019) and the 204th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henryk Sławik ranks 13,734 out of 19,576Before him are Alexander Bezborodko, José Bové, Augusts Kirhenšteins, Ignacy Potocki, Aurel Popovici, and Herbert Lawford. After him are Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Neferhotep III, Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Youcef Yousfi, Neelie Kroes, and František Kriegel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Henryk Sławik ranks 177Before him are Jack Benny, James Thurber, Wilhelm Hasse, Esfir Shub, José Bustamante y Rivero, and Florbela Espanca. After him are Krešimir Baranović, Vladimir Triandafillov, Heikki Liimatainen, James Anderson, Walter Piston, and Tiny Sandford. Among people deceased in 1944, Henryk Sławik ranks 241Before him are Paul-Émile Janson, Shigeo Arai, Hippolyte Aucouturier, Jaan Kikkas, Nikolai Roslavets, and Mary Adela Blagg. After him are Yevgeniya Rudneva, Jędrzej Moraczewski, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Kustaa Pihlajamäki, and Andrey Toshev.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Henryk Sławik ranks 890 out of 1,694Before him are Walter Bathe (1892), Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885), Józef Chełmoński (1849), Teresa Ciepły (1937), Israel Gutman (1923), and Ignacy Potocki (1750). After him are Max Gerson (1881), Egon Franke (1935), Józef Mehoffer (1869), Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (1951), Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), and Tomasz Stańko (1942).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Henryk Sławik ranks 204Before him are Heinrich von Stephan (1831), Aleksander Skrzyński (1882), Paweł Adamowicz (1965), Jan Klemens Branicki (1689), Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885), and Ignacy Potocki (1750). After him are Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870), Bogdan Borusewicz (1949), Andrzej Bartkowiak (1950), Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1950), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1820), and Erich Mende (1916).