Jadwiga Piłsudska
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Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska was a Polish pilot who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She was one of two daughters of Józef Piłsudski.
Piłsudska, March 1943
Piłsudska learning to fly at 17
Marshal Piłsudski with daughter
Nansen passport
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Nansen passports, originally and officially stateless persons passports, were internationally recognized refugee travel documents from 1922 to 1938, first issued by the League of Nations's Office of t
Jadwiga Piłsudska
…Due to the communist takeover in Poland, she remained in England after the war as a political émigré. Never accepting British citizenship, she used a Nansen passport, valid for all countries in the world, except Poland. In 1977, she and her husband took part in the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II on board the MGB S-3…
The front cover of a Nansen passport (green stripe), written in French, the diplomatic language
Nansen passport cover; Police office, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1930
Nansen passport renewal stamp; Nansen International Office for Refugees, 1930
Memorial plaque (partial view); outside wall, City Hall, Oslo, Norway, 2007