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Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪl(hɛl)m ˈhoːzənfɛlt]; 2 May 1895 – 13 August 1952), originally a school teacher, was a German Army officer who by the end of the Second World War had risen to the rank of Hauptmann (captain).
Wilm Hosenfeld (1895–1952), Nazi Captain who hid and rescued many Polish people, including Władysław Szpilman; Kurt Huber (1893–1943), White Rose; Helmuth Hübener (1925–1942), Hamburg Vierergruppe (German Resistance) Walter Huder (1921–2002) Alois Hundhammer (1900–1974), at the time, the youngest member of the Bavarian Landtag
Wilm Hosenfeld — German officer (Commander's Cross) Norman Hulbert — British officer; Ludwik Idzikowski — Polish aviator and pioneer (Officer's Cross) Sergěj Ingr, Minister of National Defense in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Grand Cross)
Wilm Hosenfeld – an army captain in Warsaw – helped, hid, or rescued several Poles, including Jews, in occupied Poland. He helped the Polish-Jewish composer Władysław Szpilman , who was hiding among the city's ruins, by supplying him with food and water.
The Pianist is a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman in which he describes his life in Warsaw in occupied Poland during World War II. After being forced with his family to live in the Warsaw Ghetto, Szpilman manages to avoid deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, and from his hiding places around the city witnesses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 ...
After a tactical Polish victory at the battle of Szack on September 28, where the combined Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza or Border Protection Corps forces, under General Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann, routed the Soviet 52nd Rifle Division, the Soviets executed Polish officers they captured; 18 victims were identified. [14]
Wilhelm Hosenfeld (1895–1952), recognised 2008 Stephanie Hüllenhagen [ de ] (1893–1967), recognised 2001 Kreszentia Hummel [ de ] (1907–2002), recognised 2015
Irena Adamowicz: a courier for the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa) who provided information to a number of Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland.In 1985, Adamowicz was posthumously bestowed the title of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.