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

Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Naczelnik państwa, Chief of State (1918–1922) and Marshal of Poland, First Marshal of Second Polish Republic, Poland (from 1920). He was ...

, and a

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by profession.

Life

Wanda Piłsudska, of the Piłsudski coat of arms, was the elder daughter of

and Aleksandra Szczerbińska. She spent her youth mainly in

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, living with her family at the Belweder Palace, and in Sulejówek 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, Wanda was evacuated by special aeroplane via Sweden to the

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. She studied

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, then practiced

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at a Polish hospital 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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Life

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