Jadwiga Piłsudska
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Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska (Polish:
Life and career
Piłsudska was born on 28 February 1920 in
In 1937 Piłsudska began flying
In September 1939, Poland was invaded by
Later she acquired her aircraft pilot's license, and in July 1942, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. With the rank of second officer[2] (flying officer) she flew unarmed military aircraft in the skies of wartime Britain[1] and was, with Anna Leska and the Lithuanian-Pole Barbara Wojtulanis, one of several Polish women who served as wartime ferry pilots in Britain.[3]
She took leave of absence to become a student at the Polish School of Architecture, at the Polish University Abroad (housed in Liverpool University), from 1944 to 1946, and then on the Liverpool Town Planning Course from 1946 to 1948.[4]
In 1944, she married Polish Navy Lieutenant Andrzej Jaraczewski. She had two children: a son, Christopher Joseph (in Polish Krzysztof Józef) and daughter, Jane Mary (in Polish Joanna Maria), who later married Polish politician Janusz Onyszkiewicz.
She worked as an architect for London City Council from 1948, before she and her husband set up their own furniture design business.
Due to the
In 1977, she and her husband took part in the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II on board the MGB S-3 during the Thames River Pageant.
In 1990, with the collapse of the communist government, she returned to Poland and lived in Warsaw.[1]
She died on 16 November 2014, in Warsaw at the age of 94.[6]
Honours
She has been honoured with a
See also
- Piłsudski family
- Bronisław Piłsudski (1866–1918)
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Jadwiga Pilsudska-Jaraczewska - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
- ^ T. J. Krzystek, Personel Polskich Sił Powietrznych w Wielkiej Brytanii w latach 1940-1947 łącznie z Pomocniczą Lotniczą Służbą Kobiet (PLSK-WAFF), Agencja Lotnicza ALTAIR - Krajowa Rada Lotnicza, Warszawa 2007
- ^ "Stefania Wojtulanis-Karpińska - królowa przestworzy - Historia - polskieradio.pl". polskieradio24.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ Newnham College Register, vol II. Newnham College. p. 213.
- ^ A. Romanowski, Piękne wczoraj, "Apokryf", No 13 (in Tygodnik Powszechny, No 45/1998)
- ^ "Nie żyje Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska. Miała 94 lata". Onet Wiadomości (in Polish). 16 November 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2016.