State distinction for Warsaw Rising insurgent
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
03.08.2017 12:07
Julian Kulski, who was 15 when he fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, has received the "Bene Merito" distinction from the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Julian Kulski: Photo: Jarosław Pijarowski/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The son of a pre-war deputy mayor of Warsaw, Kulski was captured by Nazi Germans and sent to a POW camp in Germany.
After the war, he studied architecture in England and the United States and settled in America.
He is the author of several books in both Polish and English, including The Color of Courage – A Boy at War and Dying we Live.
During a presentation ceremony, Deputy Foreign Minister Jan Dziedziczak said Kulski was an example of effective patriotism in peace time, "a man who treated his personal successes as service to Poland".
The Bene Merito distinction was established in 2009 to honour Polish and foreign nationals for their services to consolidate Poland’s position on the international scene. (mk/vb)