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Adam Żurowski

ID: OS-007161-P

Adam Żurowski

Quebec | Canada
First name:
Adam
Last Name:
Żurowski
Date of birth:
1908
Date of death:
1962
Age:
54
Profession:
diplomat
Biography:

Adam Żurowski (1908-1962), Polish diplomat. After graduating from the University of Grenoble, he worked at the consulates in Lyon and Lille, and later at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw. During the war he was interned in Switzerland. However, he made it to London, from where he was posted to Canada, to work in the Polish embassy, where, among other things, he looked after the Wawel treasures. He died in Ottawa and is buried in a family grave in Notre-Dame Cemetery in Ottawa, Ontario.

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