Jadwiga
Piłsudska
aka Pilsudska, Jaraczewska
Born in Warszawa, Polska
Ancestors 
Daughter of Józef Klemens Piłsudski
and Aleksandra (Szczerbińska) Piłsudska
Sister of
Wanda Piłsudska
Wife of
Andrzej Antoni Jaraczewski
— married
1944 [location unknown]
Mother of
[private son (1950s - unknown)]
Died
at age 94
in Warszawa, Polska
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Biography
Jadwiga Piłsudska is Notable.
Jadwiga Pilsudska-Jaraczewska was the youngest daughter of Józef Piłsudski, who was a pre-war Polish leader and military hero Marshal, and his wife, Aleksandra Szczerbińska.
After the German invasion of her country, she fled to Britain, where she served during the war as a pilot in the Air Transport Auxiliary.
Jadwiga’s interest in aviation began in childhood where she built model aeroplanes, She flew gliders in 1937 and went on to gain her pilot’s licence. She graduated with a degree in Architecture at Newnham College, Cambridge.
In February of 1940, Jadwiga soon made the first of several attempts to join ATA as a civilian service dedicated to ferrying aircraft around the UK for the RAF. By June of 1942, Jadwiga was piloting the Hurricane and Spitfire. She was regarded "by her superiors as “ of above average skills”, rose to be a second officer and this allowed her to fly Class 4 aircraft, which included advanced twin-engined aircraft such as the Wellington bomber and the Mosquito in addition to fighters and transport aircraft."[1]
In 1944, she had married Lieutenant Andrzej Jaraczewski, a Polish naval officer, with whom she had a son and daughter.
"Her daughter, Joanna, returned to Poland in 1979 and married the Solidarity activist Janusz Onyszkiewicz (who would serve two terms as Poland’s Minister of Defence in the 1990s). Jadwiga waited until the fall of communism in 1990, when she and her husband and sister returned home, settling in Warsaw, where Andrzej Jaraczewski died in 1992."[1]
"For her wartime service in the ATA, Jadwiga Pilsudska-Jaraczewska was awarded the Polish Bronze Cross of Merit with Swords, and in 2008 she was presented with the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by the Polish president Lech Kaczynski."."[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Telegraph. 21 Nov 2014. Jadwiga Pilsudska-Jaraczewska's Obituary. Accessed 9 Nov 2019 at Obituary of Jadwiga Pilsudska
- Wikipedia contributors. "Jadwiga Piłsudska." Wikipedia. Accessed 19 Jun 2017.
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