Jan Dobraczyński (on right)

Jan Dobraczyński (20 April 1910, Warsaw — 5 March 1994, Warsaw) was a Polish writer and publicist. During the Second Polish Republic, he was a supporter of the Stronnictwo Narodowe and Catholic movements. Soldier of the Polish Army during Polish Defensive War of 1939, member of Armia Krajowa, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. After the war supported Polish communists, member to Sejms of 1952 and 1985, activist of PAX Association and Patriotyczny Ruch Odrodzenia Narodowego. Held the rank of general in Polish forces.

During World War II, as the head of the Division for Abandoned Children at the Warsaw municipal welfare department, Jan Dobraczynski helped Żegota activists place Jewish children in convents.^[1] He was imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen following Warsaw Uprising.

In 1985 Dobraczyński was awarded the Cross of Virtuti Militari and in 1993 the title of the Righteous Among the Nations.

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• Jan Dobraczyński, Tylko w jednym życiu. Wspomnienia, 1986
• Zygmunt Lichniak, Szkic do portretu Jana Dobraczyńskiego, 1962
• Aleksander Rogalski, Dobraczyński, 1986 (fr)
• Aleksander Rogalski, Jan Dobraczyński, 1981 (en)
• Jerzy Ziomek, Jana Dobraczyńskiego Księgi (bez) Wyjścia, in Wizerunki polskich pisarzy katolickich, 1963.

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