Warsaw, Poland

Polish resistance fighter and clinical nurse specialist who, as head of the children's section of Żegota, rescued approximately 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II

Polish film director, screenwriter, and politician, recipient of an Honorary Oscar and Palme d'Or, known for his war film trilogy: A Generation, Kanał, and Ashes and Diamonds

Prolific Hungarian mathematician known for solving numerous open problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, and number theory

Visionary Polish film director and screenwriter known for Dekalog, The Double Life of Veronique, and the Three Colours trilogy