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Teresa Walewska-Przyjałkowska

1937 – 2010

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Teresa Walewska-Przyjałkowska (10 September 1937 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish scientist and social activist, founding member and vice-president of the Golgota Wschodu (Golgotha of the East), an organisation which commemorates the victims of the Katyn massacre. She was founder and president of the Association for the Propagation of the Cult of St. Andrew Bobola Foundation. She died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash near Smolensk on 10 April 2010 and was posthumously awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta.