Walentyna Janta-Połczyńska

[1] A recipient of the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, she was a philanthropist and the centre of Polish-American culture in New York.

[1] At the end of 1942, Stocker began working as an organizer and announcer for the secret Świt radio station, which had its headquarters at Bletchley, and broadcast to occupied Poland.

[8] Jan Karski, an underground investigator, delivered some of the earliest reports of German atrocities against the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

In a biography of Karski entitled Inferno, Waldemar Piasecki wrote that "with [Stocker's] language and professional qualifications, she was an invaluable acquisition.

[1] They hosted, among others, Czesław Miłosz, Jerzy Giedroyc, Jan Karski, Marek Hłasko, and Zbigniew Herbert, as well as Charlie Chaplin, Vladimir Nabokov, Mahatma Gandhi, and Karol Szymanowski.

[6] She was also active at the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America, a research organisation devoted to the study of modern Polish history.

In 1958, Walentyna and Aleksander Janta-Połczyński assisted with a project that brought 35 former Polish prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp in Ravensbruck to the United States for mental health treatment for a period of six months.

They helped solve problems that emerged as these former Polish concentration camp inmates sought mental health treatment in the United States, where they had not been before.

[6] Between 1959 and 1961, Janta-Połczyńska worked successfully for the restoration of the Wawel Castle treasures (which had been evacuated at the start of the war) from Canada to Poland.

[8] Initially, this archive was only reserved for Dr. Franciszek Palowski, who was a researcher and expert in Aleksander Janta's work as well as a family friend.