Jan Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz (Ukrainian : Іван-Степан-Марія Токарже́вський-Караше́вич; 24 June 1885 - 18 November 1954) was a Ukrainian diplomat and heraldist of Polish origins.
Jan Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz (Ukrainian : Іван-Степан-Марія Токарже́вський-Караше́вич; 24 June 1885 - 18 November 1954) was a Ukrainian diplomat and heraldist of Polish origins.
Born into a noble family in the village Chabanivka near Kamianets-Podilskyi, his father was Stefan Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz, and mother was Laura Piotrawin-Janiszewska. [1] He was educated at a gymnasium in Zhytomyr, and graduated from the University of Fribourg before World War I.
From 1918 to 1924, he served as a Ukrainian diplomat in Vienna (1918), Constantinople (Ukrainian ambassador in 1920), Rome, and Tarnov (Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile). From 1924 to 1936, he lived in France, where he was a member of the France-East Committee, and an editor of the La France et l'Ukraine bulletin. Then he lived in Italy (1936 – 1948), and in England (1948 – 1954), where he was a Ukrainian representative of Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. He was buried in a cemetery in Gunnersbury, a place in the London Borough of Hounslow, in 1954, and finally his relics were transferred to a pantheon of Ukrainian historical figures at South Bound Brook, New Jersey in 1978.
Polish general Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz was a member of the same family. Tokarzewski was married to Oksana Lototsky, a daughter of another diplomat Oleksander Lototsky. Tokarzewski's sister Helena married lawyer Jan Paweł Gromnicki , who also served in Polish army during Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Soviet war.
Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland. He reported about the state of Poland, its many competing resistance factions, and also about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and its operation of extermination camps on Polish soil that were murdering Jews, Poles, and others.
Jarosław Leon Iwaszkiewicz, was a Polish writer, poet, essayist, dramatist and translator. He is recognized for his literary achievements, beginning with poetry and prose written after World War I. After 1989, he was often presented as a political opportunist during his mature years lived in communist Poland, where he held high offices. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. In 1988, he was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations for his role in sheltering Jews during World War II.
Trąby is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by many szlachta (noble) families under the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Operational Group was the highest level type of tactical division of the Polish Army at various points in the 20th century, mainly during the Second World War.
General Michał Tadeusz Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz, Coat of arms of Trąby pseudonym Doktor, Stolarski, Torwid was a Polish general, founder of the resistance movement "Polish Victory Service".
The Union of Armed Struggle, also translated as the Union for Armed Struggle, Association of Armed Struggle, and Association for Armed Struggle, was an underground army formed in Poland following its invasion in September 1939 by Germany and the Soviet Union that opened World War II. It existed from 13 November 1939 until 14 February 1942, when it was renamed into Home Army.
Jan Parandowski was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator. Best known for his works relating to classical antiquity, he was also the president of the Polish PEN Club between 1933 and 1978, with a break during World War II. He was born in Lwów, and died in Warsaw.
Juliusz Karol Wilhelm Józef Rómmel was a Polish military commander, a general of the Polish Armed Forces.
Maciej Kalenkiewicz was a Polish engineer and lieutenant colonel of the Polish Army. During World War II was a soldier of Henryk Dobrzański's military unit, member of cichociemni, officer of the Home Army, partisan commander in the Nowogródek District of the Home Army.
Andriy Mykolaiovych Livytskyi was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, statesman, and lawyer.
Hugon Hanke was a Polish politician, best known for being 38th Prime Minister of Poland and 8th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland in Exile and for his unexpected return to the Communist-ruled country while serving as PM.
Col. Czesław Mączyński was a Polish officer, politician in the Second Polish Republic, and the Commander-in-chief of the Polish military contingent during the defense of Lwów – also called the Battle of Lemberg – throughout November 1918, as well as the Polish–Soviet War of 1920. He was the recipient of some of the highest Polish military awards including Virtuti Militari, and a subject of the 2004 monograph by Jacek Miliński from University of Łódź.
Adam Remigiusz Grocholski war names "Brochwicz", "Doktor", "Inżynier", "Miś", "Waligóra", and pseudonym Żukowski was a Lieutenant Colonel (Podpułkownik) of the Polish Army. He retired from active service in 1934.
Oleksander Lototsky was a Ukrainian statesman, diplomat, writer, and scientist. He was a member of the Association of the Ukrainian Progressionists (TUP).
5th Legions Infantry Regiment of Józef Piłsudski was an infantry regiment of the Polish Army in 1918–1939. It was garrisoned in Vilnius as part of the 1st Legions Infantry Division.
Tadeusz Stefan Aleksander Münnich was a soldier of the Polish Legions in World War I, and Colonel of Infantry of the Polish Army in the Second Polish Republic. Born on August 18, 1893, in Lemberg, Austrian Galicia, he died on October 12, 1959, in London.
Aleksander Piotr Mohl, Count, was a Polish military officer, diplomat and intelligence officer.
Emil Kumor, code name "Krzyś" was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Polish Army, soldier of the September Campaign and the Warsaw Uprising, officer of the Main Command of the SZP and Main Command of the ZWZ and Home Army. In 1942, Kumor initiated and organized "Operation Góral", a successful heist during which a German money transport worth 105 million Polish zlotys was captured.
Ludwik Regamey (1877-1967) was a Polish construction engineer by trade. He worked in Bydgoszcz where he had a very active associative life as a musician. He was the first chairman of the Alliance Française in Bydgoszcz. After moving to France in 1934, he was a formidable promoter of French and Polish culture exchanges till his demise in 1977, in Toulouse.
Stanisław Sylwester Alfonzy Grodyński - Polish soldier, lawyer, local government administrator and senior military intelligence adviser\officer.
 | This Ukrainian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
