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- Date of production 2002
- Place of creation Jerusalem, Israel
- Dimensions width: 6 cm
- ID no. MHK 951/VII
- Museum Historical Museum of the City of Kraków
- Branch The Eagle Pharmacy
- Subjects war, famous people , memory
- Technique struck, silver-plated matt
- Material bronze
- Object copyright Historical Museum of the City of Kraków
- Digital images copyright © all rights reserved, HMCK
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums project
- Tags occupation , Kraków ghetto , Holocaust , The Eagle Pharmacy , Tadeusz Pankiewicz , Jews , Jerusalem , 2D , Shoah , audiodescription , numismatics , © all rights reserved
The original of the medal granted to Tadeusz Pankiewicz (21.11.1908—5.11.1993) by the Israeli Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority Yad Vashem on 15 September 1983 is stored in the Częstochowa sanctuary, placed there as an offering by his widowed wife after the death of Pankiewicz.
more The original of the medal granted to Tadeusz Pankiewicz (21.11.1908—5.11.1993) by the Israeli Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority Yad Vashem on 15 September 1983 is stored in the Częstochowa sanctuary, placed there as an offering by his widowed wife after the death of Pankiewicz. The medal presented here is the second copy (a duplicate). It was given as a donation to the Museum of National Remembrance at the Eagle Pharmacy [Apteka Pod Orłem] on 22 October 2002 by Shevah Weiss, the then ambassador of the State of Israel in Poland and the President of the Yad Vashem Council.
At the top, the image of the globe enfolded with coils of barb wire line, falling down towards two hands untying the line. The image of the globe is surrounded by the Hebrew inscription: אחת כאילו קיים עולם מלא [Whosoever saves a single life, saves an entire universe].
Reverse: high relief. At the top the image of the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem against the hills. Below the olive tree and the two-versed inscription in Hebrew: לאות תודה מאת עם ישראל [The Nation of Israel in Gratitude]. Under the inscription the individual feature of the medal — the imprinted name and surname of the awarded: Tadeusz Pankiewicz. At the bottom, the inscription in French: Quiconque sauve une vie sauve l'univers tout entier.
On the edge the signatures: BRONZE ארד STATE OF ISRAEL מדינת ישראל 09158 and a stamp in the form of a five-branched candelabrum.
Elaborated by Eugeniusz Duda (Historical Museum of the City of Kraków), © all rights reserved
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