Ludwik Solski

From his stage debut in 1876 until his death (his last performance took place six months after his 99th birthday) he played in nearly a thousand roles.

During the bombing of Warsaw in September 1939, Solski's entire apartment in a tenement house at Aleje Jerozolimskie 31 was destroyed.

After the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, Ludwik Solski was to be evacuated together with the Infant Jesus Hospital (Polish: Szpital Kliniczny Dzieciątka Jezus), where he was staying.

Zygmunt Augustyński, a pre-war journalist and one of the main activists of the RGO, enabled him to leave the hospital at 55 Mokotowska Street.

Upon reaching the destination, 89-year-old Solski, having climbed onto a truck via improvised stairs, turned to Augustyński and said: "Mr. Zygmunt, it was the most difficult role in my life".

Ludwik Solski and Aleksander Zelwerowicz at the Polish Radio in 1949
Solski's final resting place, in the Crypt of the Distinguished in the Na Skałce church