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The Head of the Polish Humanitarian Organization honored
03.02.2009
Janina Ochojska, the head of the Polish Humanitarian Organization is the first post-war laureate of the Erazm and Anna Jerzmanowski prize granted by the Polish Academy of Skills after seventy one year break. She said the prize is a distinction to the whole Organization and it proves the need for charity actions nowadays. The prize dubbed “The Polish Nobel Prize” was set up over one hundred years ago by Erazm Jerzmanowski, a Polish engineer who in the year 1873-1896 made a fortune in gas industry in the United States. He donated a part of his fortune – an equivalent of 12 kilograms of gold to fund the prize. Its aim was to honor literary, scientific and humanitarian work to the benefit of the home country. Its first recipient was cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha in 1915.