Halina Grodyńska meeting up for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Katyn_Massacre" class="extiw" title="w:en:Katyn Massacre">Katyn Massacre</a> remembrance in London on 12 April 1952 with close friends Count Stefan Tyskiewicz (left of picture), Nika Offenkowska and husband Zenon Offenkowski, along with other friends associated with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:_Polish_government-in-exile" class="extiw" title="w:en: Polish government-in-exile">Polish government-in-exile</a>. <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pl:Stefan_Tyszkiewicz" class="extiw" title="w:pl:Stefan Tyszkiewicz">Count Tyszkiewicz (pl)</a> was born on 24 November 1896 in Warsaw, Poland. He married Elena Herzogin von Leuchtenburg (1892-1971), daughter of Georgi Maksimilianovich von Leuchtenberg, Sixth Duke of Leuchtenberg, and Anastasiya Nikolaievna Petrovic-Njegoš, Princess of Montenegro, on 18 July 1917 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Yalta" class="extiw" title="w:en:Yalta">Yalta</a> on the Crimean Peninsula.   He died on 1 February 1976 at age 79 in London, England.  Stefan served in both World Wars, as well as in the Polish-Bolshevik War (1919-1921), and after WWII settled with his wife (also known as “Princess Elena Georgievna of Enbergenberg”) in London, as did Halina and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Stanis%C5%82aw_Sylwester_Alfonzy_Grody%C5%84ski" class="extiw" title="w:en:Stanisław Sylwester Alfonzy Grodyński">Stanisław SA Grodyński</a>.  Both families were friends before WWII and the Count visited Stanisław and Halina when Stanisław was appointed District Governor in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sarny" class="extiw" title="w:en:Sarny">Sarny</a> in Poland’s Eastern Borderlands (now in Western Ukraine), circa 1925.   As Stefan, Zenon, Stanisław, Nika and Halina all served in Egypt and Italy (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Monte_Cassino" class="extiw" title="w:en:Monte Cassino">Monte Cassino</a>) they added common war experiences to their recollections and remained close friends for the rest of their eventful lives. <br><span style="color:blue;"><i>The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scotch_Mist/People" title="User:Scotch Mist/People">Scotch Mist Gallery</a> contains photographs of historic buildings, monuments, memorials and people of Poland.</i></span>
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