Stanisław Ostrowski

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Stanisław Ostrowski (born 29 October 1892, Lvov - died 22 November 1982, London)

Ostrowski studied medicine in Lvov University. He fought, as a doctor, in Polish-Ukrainian battle of Lvov (1918) and Polish-Bolshevik war (1920). Then he was President of Lvov.

After the Soviet aggression on Poland (1939), he was arrested and prisoned in Moscow (until 1941). He left the Soviet Union as an officer of Polish Army (commander-in-chief general Władysław Anders) in 1942. He fought against Germans in Italy (1944-1945). When WW II was over, he moved to England. Ostrowski was the third President of Poland in exile (1972-1979).

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