We Remember
At this time of year, as we visit cemeteries in silence and reflection and look upon graves covered in autumn leaves, we remember those whose paths crossed ours in life. “Although they are gone, they should continue to live on in our memory,” said Marshal Piotr Całbecki, who will take part in a fundraising collection at St George’s Cemetery in Toruń on 1 November. The money raised will go towards the restoration of graves.
“Eternity for the dead lasts
as long as they are remembered.”
Wisława Szymborska
This year, we have said farewell to, among others:
- Ryszard Abramczyk – Co-founder and long-serving president of Abramczyk, a company based in Bydgoszcz
- Beata Chomicz – Founder of the Toruń branch of the Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society (PTTK) guides’ association, member of the Toruń Catholic Intelligentsia Club, liaison officer for the Home Army, and employee of the Ethnographic Museum; honoured with the Marshal of the Voivodeship’s Unitas Durat Palatinatus Cuiaviano-Pomeraniensis Medal
- Bogdan Chrapkowski – Regional Nature Conservator in Toruń from 1975 to 1998
- Ryszard Cichoracki – Member of the Volunteer Fire Brigade in Biskupice (Toruń County) and president of the Municipal Board of the Association of Volunteer Fire Brigades of the Republic of Poland
- Apolonia Czarnecka – a 102-year-old resident of Toruń, honoured with the Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region’s Unitas Durat Palatinatus Cuiaviano-Pomeraniensis Medal
- Barbara Gurzyńska – Employee of the Organisational Department of the Marshal’s Office
- Dr Cecylia Iwaniszewska – the first woman to graduate in astronomy from Nicolaus Copernicus University, a respected researcher and academic lecturer, and long-serving president of the Catholic Intelligentsia Club in Toruń; recipient of the Marshal of the Voivodeship’s Unitas Durat Palatinatus Cuiaviano-Pomeraniensis Medal
- Zygmunt Kędzierski – folk artist and long-serving president of the Bydgoszcz-Toruń branch of the Association of Folk Artists, honoured with the Marshal’s Unitas Durat Palatinatus Cuiaviano-Pomeraniensis Medal
- Stanisław Kotowski – Parish priest of the Cathedral Parish of St Martin and St Nicholas in Bydgoszcz, Provost of the cathedral chapter, Director of the Diocesan Museum in Bydgoszcz, police chaplain, spiritual adviser to the Bydgoszcz Society for the Promotion of the City, and chaplain to the Siberians’ Association
- Dawid Kozłowski – Employee of the Transport Department of the Marshal’s Office
- Katarzyna Lipińska – Employee of the Organisational Department of the Marshal’s Office
- Przemysław Mazur – Employee of the Marshal’s Office and deputy director of the Infrastructure Department
- Marian Morowiak – Employee of the Organisational Department of the Marshal’s Office
- Janusz Ostoja-Zagórski – Archaeologist and Professor of humanities, Rector of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz from 2012 to 2016
- Dr Stanisław Rakowicz – Toruń Voivode from 1988 to 1990
- Bolesław Szulc – Kujawsko-Pomorskie Regional Councillor from 2002 to 2006, chair of the Inowrocław City Council from 1994 to 2002, Inowrocław County Councillor from 2006 to 2010, and headteacher of Primary School No. 14 in Inowrocław from 1970 to 1990
- Urszula Tauer, code-named “Ala” – Home Army liaison officer and participant in the Warsaw Uprising, resident of Bydgoszcz, honoured with the Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region’s Unitas Durat Palatinatus Cuiaviano-Pomeraniensis Medal
- Hanna Walenczykowska – Journalist for Express Bydgoski and Gazeta Pomorska
- Jacek Woźny – Kujawsko-Pomorskie Regional Councillor during the seventh term and rector of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz from 2016 to 2024
- Piotr Zabłocki – Head of Raciążek Municipality (Aleksandrów County)
- Katarzyna Zaczek – Councillor on the Bydgoszcz City Council during its ninth term
- Wiesław Zajączkowski – Director of the Archaeological Museum in Biskupin from 1983 to 2017, member of the Gąsawa Municipal Council from 2010 to 2014, recipient of the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region Award in 2013
Beata Krzemińska
Spokesperson of the Marshal’s Office
30 October 2026