June 13, 1990(1990-06-13) (aged 83) Arlington, Virginia, US
Allegiance
Second Polish Republic
Polish government-in-exile
Service/branch
Polish Land Forces
1st Armoured Division (Poland)
Years of service
1939–1947
Rank
Lieutenant
Battles/wars
Invasion of Poland
Warsaw Uprising
Awards
Yad Vashem Award
Memorials
Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations
Spouse(s)
Sophie Margulies Koper
Relations
Peter Koper (son)
Other work
Defense Language Institute
United States Information Agency
Voice of America
Righteous Among the Nations
The Holocaust
Rescuers of Jews
Righteousness
Seven Laws of Noah
Yad Vashem
By country
Austrian
Croatian
German
Hungarian
Lithuanian
Norwegian
Polish (list)
Romanian
Serbian
Ukrainian
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Antoni Stefan Koper (September 6, 1906 – June 13, 1990) was active in the Polish resistance movement during World War II. He helped rescue Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and fought in the Warsaw Uprising. After escaping from a Nazi prison camp, he first fled to London, and then emigrated to the United States. There, he worked for the Defense Language Institute, United States Information Agency, and the Voice of America. He died of cancer in 1990.
Antoni Stefan Koper (September 6, 1906 – June 13, 1990) was active in the Polish resistance movement during World War II. He helped rescue Jews from the...
and Hofstra University. Koper was born in 1947 in British-occupied Quakenbrück, Germany, to Polish resistance fighter AntoniKoper and Holocaust survivor...
They hid until liberation at the Klewicki villa in Radość near Warsaw. AntoniKoper: provided fake documents and shelter for Jews in Warsaw Stefan Korboński...
Zofia Nałkowska, Marian Hemar, Hanka Ordonówna, Jan Kiepura, Zofia Batycka, Antoni Słonimski), athletes (Stanisława Walasiewicz, Halina Konopacka, Janusz Kusociński)...
Corfu nobility; the title originates from the city of Capodistria (now Koper) in Slovenia, then part of the Republic of Venice and the place of origin...
benchmark referring to the upgraded tide gauge station in the coastal town of Koper. The Alps, which also have a large meteorological impact on the Mediterranean...
Times. 12 September 2017. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Koper, Pawel; Sobczak, Anna. "Polish president backs down in judicial reform spat"...
metropolitan archdiocese in 1830. The diocese of Ljubljana (Laibach), Trieste-Koper (Capo d'Istria), Poreč-Pula (Parenzo-Pola), and Krk-Rab (Veglia-Arbe) were...
Diocesan Seminarian Emil Kete July 1, 1924 November 13, 1944 20 Slovenia Koper Servant of God Diocesan Seminarian Hedwig Elisabeth Schnarbach July 16,...
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