Romuald Traugutt - Polish general and war hero, who lived in Żelechów.
Thanks to this information, by the 19th and early 20th century, Prince Konrad became in a Polish national hero.
Andrzej or Andrew Bobola was a Polish national hero.
Other operations occurred after the Germans began destroying monuments to Polish national heroes and historical personalities.
The Polish army's salute is believed to originate from a Polish hero who had three fingers blown off.
Best known for a series of academic works on Polish literature and of sketches depicting Polish national heroes.
That is where Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the 18th century Polish hero, died.
He is remembered as an accomplished military commander, and regarded as a Polish national hero.
Even then, he maintained the greatest possible resistance to Communist policies; it may well have been that his reputation as a Polish hero kept him out of prison.
He was buried with full military honors as Polish hero.