• Source: Jan Karski Eagle Award

The Jan Karski Eagle Award (pol. Nagroda Orła Jana Karskiego) was established on 5 May 2000 by Polish professor Jan Karski (1914–2000), war courier of the Polish government in-exile, witness of the Holocaust and Righteous Among the Nations. Karski wanted this award to go to those who "can worthily worry about Poland" and to those who "although aren't Polish, wish good to Poland". The award has an honorary character and there is no monetary award granted with it, because, as the originator argued, "dignity is incalculable in money". It is symbolized by the Eagle statuette, the project of which was approved by Jan Karski. The organisation side of the award was gifted to Waldemar Piasecki.




Committee


The award committee of the Eagle Award is made of people that received this award. Its first chairman was Jacek Kuroń, who was the only one who was honored to get this award directly from Jan Karski's hands. In handing over the award to Józef Tischner, Jan Karski participated via phone. The committee gives out the award yearly on June 24, on Jan Karski's birthday.




Winners


2000: Jacek Kuroń, Józef Tischner
2001: Rabin Jacob Baker from Jedwabne and Krzysztof Godlewski, mayor of Jedwabne
2002: Grzegorz Pawłowski, Marek Edelman
2003: Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Alfons Nossol
2004: Viktor Yushchenko, Feliks Tych
2005: Tygodnik Powszechny, Oriana Fallaci
2006: Adam Michnik, Abraham Foxman
2007: Elie Wiesel, Tadeusz Pieronek
2008: Shimon Peres, Bronisław Geremek
2009: Stanisław Dziwisz, Hoover Institution
2010: Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Leopold Unger
2011: Lech Wałęsa, Mikhail Gorbachev
2012: Karol Modzelewski, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2013: Richard Pipes, the movie Aftermath (2012)
2014: The Kozielewski family, Rotary International
2015: Julian Kornhauser, Boris Nemtsov
2016: Nadiya Savchenko, Arthur Schneier
2017: Abraham Skorka, Ibrahim Al-Sabbagh
2018: Władysław Anders, Ghetto Fighters' House
2019: Paweł Adamowicz (granted 14 January 2019, a couple of hours after death announcement), Franciszek Dąbrowski (posthumously)
2020: Father Ludwik Wiśniewski, Dominika Kulczyk
2021: Lampedusa, Remigiusz Korejwo, Jan Holoubek
2022: Volodymyr "Vovka" Bigun, the Polish society (for its solidarity with Ukrainian people)
2023: Horst Köhler and the International Court of Justice in the Hague
2024: Adam Strzembosz and Vera Jourova.




Special editions


Aside from yearly awards, occasionally there are Special Awards given out honoring the achievements and merits of the winners in the longer time schedule, sometimes even over their entire lives. To this day there are only 6 winners:

Walentyna Janta-Połczyńska (2016)
Herbert Hoover (posthumously, 2019)
Viasna Human Rights Centre (2020)
Alexei Navalny (2021)
Volodymyr Zelenskiy (2022)
Alex Dancyg (2024)
Adam Boniecki MIC (2024)




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Paweł Adamowicz
• Jan Karski Eagle Award
• Jan Karski
• Lampedusa
• Oriana Fallaci
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy
• Aftermath (2012 film)
• Adam Michnik
• Alex Dancyg
• Sławomir Grünberg
• Order of the White Eagle (Poland)