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The Virtus et Fraternitas Medal (Polish name: Medal Virtus et Fraternitas; Latin for "Courage and Brotherhood") is a Polish state decoration established on 9 November 2017.
It is awarded by the President of Poland on recommendation of the director of the Pilecki Institute as a token of commemoration and gratitude to those who provided aid and assistance to Polish citizens against Soviet and Nazi Germany war crimes as well as other crimes motivated by nationalism committed between 1917–1990. It is also bestowed to honor individuals who voluntarily keep alive the memory of those who did not survive the war or the forced deportations, and found their graves abroad.
The medal has been conceptually compared to Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations Awards.




Design


The medal is round and silver. On the obsverse it is inscribed "VIRTUS ET FRATERNITATIS" (virtue and brotherhood). In the center of the medal carved stylized image of the White Eagle. The cross is 36 mm in diameter.
The Virtus et Fraternitas Medal is suspended from a purple ribbon, 36 mm wide. Symmetrically arranged along the edges of the ribbon are gold stripes each 4 mm wide, both 4 mm from the edge.




Recipients



The medal was awarded for the first time on 19 June 2019. Among the awarded were:

Tassybay Abdikarimov
Oleksandra Vaseyko
Chaim Eiss
Zinaida Giergiel
Anatolij Giergiel
Władysław Konopczyński
Juliusz Kühl
Aleksander Ładoś
Władysława Nagórka
Antoni Nagórka
Konstanty Rokicki
Stefan Ryniewicz
Adolf Henryk Silberschein
Lóránd Utassy
The second awarding of medals took place on June 2, 2021 at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. They were given to the following persons:

Maria Bazeluk
Petro Bazeluk
Ecaterina Caradja
Petro Hrudzewycz
Jenő Etter
Anna Jelínková
Jan Jelínek
Jozef Lach
Žofia Lachová
The third award ceremony of medals took place on June 15, 2022 at the Belweder Palace in Warsaw. They were given to the following persons:

Raymond Voegeli
Marie Gorius
Eugène Gorius
Rosalie Fogel
Jeanine Humbert
Léon Humbert
Hélène Pionstka
Peter Fraser
Janet Fraser
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
César de Sousa Mendes
Pedro Correia Marques
Ján Klinovský
Julien Bryan
Paul Super
Elna Gistedt-Kiltynowicz
Kateryna Bojmistruk
Fedor Bojmistruk
Mykhailo Susla
Józsefné Margit Károlyi
Edith Weiss
Erzsébet Szapáry
Antal Szapáry
On 20 December 2022 were decorated:

Ilona Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka
Trofim Danieluk
Zinaida Samczuk
Hanna Skakalska (1905–1987)
Hanna Skakalska (1887–1966)
Musij Skakalski
On 6 July 2023 were decorated:

Semen Biliczuk
Ustyna Kowtoniuk
Sawa Kowtoniuk
Paraskewa Padlewska
Lubow Parfeniuk
Anton Parfeniuk
Piotr Parfeniuk
Oksana Karpiuk
Jewhenia Bondaruk
Prokop Bondaruk
Anastasija Koreń
Mykoła Koreń
Sofia Kyc
Pawło Kyc
Herasym Łukiańczuk
Wołodymyr Kryżuk




See also


Orders, decorations, and medals of Poland
History of Poland (1918–1939)
History of Poland (1939–1945)
History of Poland (1945–1989)
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia




References






See also


Pilecki Institute

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Aristides de Sousa Mendes
• Virtus et Fraternitas Medal
• Aristides de Sousa Mendes
• Oleksandra Vaseyko
• Tassybay Abdikarimov
• Juliusz Kühl
• Chaim Yisroel Eiss
• Peter Fraser
• Orders, decorations, and medals of Poland
• Lóránd Utassy
• Stefan Ryniewicz