Jakub Nowakowski

Jakub Tomasz Nowakowski, pseud. "Tomek", "Tomasz" (born 4 December 1924) is a Polish zoologist, participant of the Warsaw Uprising, independence conspiracy activist during World War II, and a retired major of the Polish Armed Forces.

Biography Before the World War II, he attended the Military Family Association School on Czarnecki Street in Warsaw, and later the Adam Skwarczyński Public Elementary School. At the outbreak of World War II, he was a student at the Tadeusz Czacki State Men's Gymnasium in Warsaw.

He is a member of the World Association of Home Army Soldiers and the Social Committee for the Care of the Graves of Fallen Soldiers of the Zośka Battalion. In 2022, he was appointed a member of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression.

Personal life The son of painter Bogdan Bartłomiej Nowakowski (1887–1945) and Zofia ( Dydzińska), His wife was biologist, Irena Totwen-Nowakowska (1924–2023); they had one daughter.

Awards In 2012, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta; the decoration ceremony took place in 2016 during the 68th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. In 2019, he received the Centenary Medal of Regained Independence.