The Trail of Famous Lubliners

The former Lublin Province School located at Narutowicza street number 12 (currently the Faculty of Pedagogy of Psychology of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University) was erected between 1857-59 thanks to the efforts of its principal – Józef Skłodowski (1804-1882). He was an esteemed teacher and a grandfather of the Nobel prize winner Marie Curie-Skłodowska (the patron of the local university - see: stop 19). ...

Kazimiera Wołowska was born in 1879 in the house at Krakowskie Przedmieście 62. At the age of 21 she joined the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was shot by the nazi occupiers in Słonim in 1942 for her patriotic and charity activity - she had been organizing underground education and hiding Jews. She was beatified by pope John Paul II in 1999. Painted by Zbigniew Kotyłło, an image of the Blessed is on display in the Lublin Cathedral and a commemorating plaque is located on the side wall of her family home. ...

The building known the "Townhouse of the Musicians" due to the sgraffito decorations of musical themes that adorn the front wall of the building. The decorations were executed by Stanisław Szczepański in 1954. On the façade there is also an image of Jan of Lublin, the author of the 16th-century tablature – one of the most valuable works of Polish and European music, which constitutes a collection of compositions of Polish, French, Italian and Spanish origin. ...

Aleksander Zelwerowicz was born in this building on the 14th of August 1877. He was an outstanding actor, director, teacher, head of theatres in Łódź, Warsaw and Vilnius. For helping the Jews during World War II he received the title of the "Righteous Among the Nations", granted by Yad Vashem – the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes’ Rememberance Authority in Jerusalem. In 1946 he was awarded the commander's cross with the star of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He died in 1955 in Warsaw, where he was buried at the Powązki Cemetery. ...

In the years 1834-1850 the house belonged to the Wieniawski Family. This is where a violin virtuoso and a great composer Henryk Wieniawski (1838-1880) was born, as well as his two brothers – Julian (a writer) and Józef (a pianist and composer).Currently the building houses a seat of the Henryk Wieniawski Music Society. ...

The monument at the courtyard of the Catholic University of Lublin is devoted to two great Poles, whose pastoral, scientific and didactic activities were connected with Lublin and the university itself. Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, used to study at the Catholic University and in the years 1925-29 stayed at the lodgings at the Old Town (see: stop 5). It was here, in Lublin, where he received a doctorate. As a bishop, in the years 1946-48, he was at the same time the chancellor of the University. Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, Doctor of Science, and subsequently a professor, used to teach at the E ...

Wincenty Ferreriusz Pol (1807-1872) was born in the tenement house at Grodzka street number 7. He was a great patriot, a participant of the November Uprising honoured with the Virtuti Militari Order. As a poet he published a number of works, including a collection of poems "Song of the Our Land" (1843). He was also a professor at the Jagiellonian University in the first department of Geography in the Polish territories, as well as the forerunner of sightseeing in Poland and a great enthusiast of his homeland (especially the mountains, from the Tatra to the Eastern Carpathians. ...

The tenament house formerly belonging to the merited historian and archivist Sergiusz Jan Riabinin (1872-1942), is currently the seat of the Józef Czechowicz Museum of Literarature – a branch of the Lublin Museum. ...

The square of Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec is located between the Radziwiłłowska Street and the Europa Hotel, in front of the building of the Lublin Science Society (former Czartoryski Palace). ...

The monument standing by Maria Curie-Skłodowska street, created by Janusz Pastwa, is devoted to Henryk Wieniawski, a composer and violin virtuoso born in Lublin (see: stop 7). He was famous not only in Europe but also in the United States. ...