Henryk Slawik, Polish Chargé d'Affaires in Budapest, Hungary, 1944

Henryk Slawik was the Polish Chargé d'Affaires in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944.  He issued numerous documents certifying that Polish Jewish refugees in Budapest were Christians.  One hundred of these were children, and were put in a Catholic orphanage. 

Slawik was caught and deported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, where he was murdered. 

Henryk Slawik was honored as Righteous Among the Nations in 1977.