Wanda Piłsudska (7 February 1918 – 16 January 2001) was a daughter of

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, and a

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by profession.

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Wanda Piłsudska, of the

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, was the elder daughter of

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and Aleksandra Szczerbińska. She spent her youth mainly in

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, living with her family at the

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, and in

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at the cottage of ''Milusin'', which Piłsudski had received as a gift from his soldiers. In September 1939, together with her mother and younger sister

Jadwiga Piłsudska Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska (; 28 February 1920 – 16 November 2014) was a Polish pilot, who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She was one of two daughters of Józef Piłsudski. Life and career Piłsudska ...

, Wanda was evacuated by special aeroplane via

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to the

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. She studied

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, then practiced

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at a

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outside

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. She also worked with the Józef Piłsudski Institute in London. In the autumn of 1990, Wanda returned for good to Poland. In November 2000 she regained the family cottage in Sulejówek, where she planned to create a museum dedicated to her father, Józef Piłsudski. Wanda Piłsudska died, after a protracted illness, in

on 16 January 2001. She willed her entire estate for the establishment of a museum honouring Józef Piłsudski.

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