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Stanisław Żaryn

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Stanisław Żaryn (5 October 1913 – 15 July 1964) was an architect, urbanist, historian and academic teacher who significantly contributed to the process of the reconstruction of historical Polish architecture after its destruction by the Germans during WWII. He was born in Warsaw to Eugenia and Franciszek Zaryn. Married to Aleksandra (née Jankowska), the couple had five children: Maria (architect, designer), Anna (physician), Szczepan (journalist), Joanna (teacher) and Jan (professor of history, elected member of the Polish Senate). He died, aged 50, in Inowrocław while leading summer fieldwork research on historical buildings with his Warsaw Polytechnic students. Stanisław Żaryn should not to be confused with his grandson, also Stanisław Żaryn, spokesman for the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services National Security Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland. After graduation from the elite Gimnazjum Towarzystwa Ziemi Mazowieckiej, he entered Poland's leading technical university, Warsaw Polytechnic. As a student at the Faculty of Architecture, he continued his specialization with Professor Oskar Sosnowski, Chair of Polish Architecture. Active in academic life, he was elected president of the Architectural Student Society and published several articles on current architectural issues. He graduated from university with the degree of architect-engineer, where he later received his doctorate. He finished reserve officers' artillery school in Włodzimierz Wołyński and In WWII served in the 1st Regiment of Horse Artillery (1 DAK). He was gravely wounded which saved him from the prisoner of war death camp in Katyń. During the German occupation he was active in Polish underground resistance movement (first NSZ, National Military Organization and then AK, the Home Army). Together with his wife Aleksandra, her sister Jadwiga and brother in law Władydysław Olizar, he sheltered and protected a Jewish family in their Szeligi estate, near Warsaw. In 1944 he fought in the Warsaw Uprising.
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