User:Elonka/Genealogy

(context) My father, Stanley Dunin, was a war orphan. Both of his parents were killed in Poland in September 1939 during the German invasion. Other family was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. My father and his sisters (all under the age of 6) were able to survive only through the frantic assistance of friends and relatives throughout Europe and North America. The children finally made their way to the United States with the assistance of Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan, and grew up to have families of their own. But because of the chaos of the war, much of our family history was lost. One of my projects has been to try and piece together the bits and pieces of my family genealogy and heritage. Wikipedia has been a good source for this, as I have been learning about some of my more famous relatives, especially from the Polish szlachta (noble/gentility) classes. This section provides links to those relatives who are notable enough to have their own articles.

If you have additional information on any of these individuals, even if it's unreferenced, I am very interested in hearing about it!


 * Agnieszka Lipska Baranowska (1819-1890), prominent Polish poet (great-great-great grandmother)
 * Jan Czarnowski - Papal chamberlain to Pope Pius XII, and leader of the Polish Order of the Knights of the Maltese Cross
 * Jared Diamond, Pulitzer-prize-winner (cousin)
 * Antoni Dunin (1907-1939) (grandfather, killed during the German invasion of Poland)
 * Elsie Ivancich Dunin (1935- ) - UCLA Professor, world expert on various types of folk dances, especially Croatian, cultural ethnologist, author of several books (mother)
 * Count Rodryg Dunin (1870-1928), Polish agriculturalist (great-grandfather)
 * Stanley Dunin (1936- ) - Mathematician and engineer, a member of the team that launched the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom 2 (father)
 * Baron Ladislaus Hengelmuller (1845-1917), Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the United States
 * Saint Raphael Kalinowski (1835-1907) (great-great grand-uncle)
 * Count Alfred Niezychowski (1888-1964), author of The Cruise of the Kronprinz Wilhelm, 1928 (great-uncle)
 * Petar Pazmany, founder of the Pazmaneum university in Vienna
 * Henryk Leon Strasburger (1887-1951), member of the Polish government in exile
 * Eduard Strasburger (1803-1874), German botanist
 * Alfons Taczanowski (1815-1867), hereditary member of the Prussian House of Lords
 * Edmund Taczanowski (1822-1879)
 * Julian Taczanowski (1813- ?)
 * Maksymilian Taczanowski (? - 1852) - Great-great-great-grandfather
 * Adam Tarnowski (1892-1956) - Polish diplomat member of the Polish Government in Exile
 * Edward Werner (1878-1945), Polish Vice-Finance Minister (great-grandfather)
 * Peter Zika (1957- ), botanist (cousin)