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  • Stefan Adam Zamoyski
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  • Count Stefan Adam Zamoyski (17 February 1904–27 October 1976) was a Polish magnate, landowner. Stefan had a degree of Doctor of Law. He was owner of Wysock estates. Lt.-Col. Count Stefan Zamoyski served as an aide-de-camp to Polish Prime Minister-in-exile Wladislaw Sikorski in London. In December 1940, Lt.-Col. Zamoyski wrote to the head of RAF Bomber Command, requesting that the concentration camp at Oswiecim (Auschwitz) be bombed to allow the Polish political prisoners there at the time to escape; the RAF declined to act. Awarded with the Virtuti Militari Order.
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noble family
Birth Date
  • 1904-02-17
death place
  • San Francisco, USA
Spouse
Name
  • Stefan Adam Zomoyski
Father
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  • consort
Mother
Birth Place
death date
  • 1976-10-27
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  • Count Stefan Adam Zamoyski (17 February 1904–27 October 1976) was a Polish magnate, landowner. Stefan had a degree of Doctor of Law. He was owner of Wysock estates. Lt.-Col. Count Stefan Zamoyski served as an aide-de-camp to Polish Prime Minister-in-exile Wladislaw Sikorski in London. In December 1940, Lt.-Col. Zamoyski wrote to the head of RAF Bomber Command, requesting that the concentration camp at Oswiecim (Auschwitz) be bombed to allow the Polish political prisoners there at the time to escape; the RAF declined to act. Awarded with the Virtuti Militari Order. Following World War II, Count Zamoyski remained in Britain. He was working at the Jockey Club when he came into contact with Captain Kazimierz Bobinski and working together, they finished Bobinski's work in compiling the famous Bobinski-Zamoyski Family Tables of Racehorses, published in 1954. He married Elżbieta Czartoryska on 26 June 1929 in Gołuchów. They have three children: * Maria Helena Zamoyska (born on 12 February 1940 in Rome) * Zdzisław Klemens Zamoyski (born on 25 September 1943 in Washington, D.C.) * Adam Stefan Zamoyski