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85 relations: Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, Alexander Alekhine, Antwerp, Łódź, Belgium, Boris Gelfand, Budapest Gambit, Carl Schlechter, Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament, Checkmate, Chess, Chess endgame, Chess Life, Chess opening, ChessBase, Chessgames.com, Chessmetrics, Congress Poland, Craig Pritchett, Edward Winter (chess historian), Emanuel Lasker, Four Knights Game, Frank Marshall (chess player), French Defence, Gersz Salwe, Grandmaster (chess), Hamburg, Hans Kmoch, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Jeremy Silman, Jews, José Raúl Capablanca, Karel Hromádka, King hunt, Kyiv, List of chess grandmasters, List of chess openings named after people, Mikhail Chigorin, Nazi Germany, Nikolay Minev, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Oxford University Press, Paolo Maurensig, Pawn (chess), Piešťany, Poland, Polanica-Zdrój, Queen (chess), Queen's Gambit Accepted, Queen's Gambit Declined, ... Expand index (35 more) »
- People from Kolno County
- Polish emigrants to Belgium
- Sportspeople from Podlaskie Voivodeship
Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
Albéric Joseph Rodolphe Marie Robert Ghislain O'Kelly de Galway (17 May 1911 – 3 October 1980) was a Belgian chess Grandmaster (1956), an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1962), and the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess (1959–1962). Akiba Rubinstein and Albéric O'Kelly de Galway are 20th-century chess players, chess Grandmasters and chess theoreticians.
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Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. Akiba Rubinstein and Alexander Alekhine are 20th-century chess players and chess players from the Russian Empire.
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Antwerp
Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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Łódź
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre.
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
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Boris Gelfand
Boris Gelfand (בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; Barys Abramavič Heĺfand; Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. Akiba Rubinstein and Boris Gelfand are chess Grandmasters and Jewish chess players.
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Budapest Gambit
The Budapest Gambit (or Budapest Defence) is a chess opening that begins with the moves: Despite an early debut in 1896, the Budapest Gambit received attention from leading players only after a win as Black by Grandmaster Milan Vidmar over Akiba Rubinstein in 1918.
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Carl Schlechter
Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. Akiba Rubinstein and Carl Schlechter are chess theoreticians.
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Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament
The Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament was one of four well-known international chess tournaments held in the spa city of Carlsbad (Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary Empire).
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Checkmate
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with) and there is no possible escape.
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Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
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Chess endgame
The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame.
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Chess Life
The monthly Chess Life and bi-monthly Chess Life Kids (formerly School Mates and Chess Life for Kids) are the official magazines published by the United States Chess Federation (US Chess).
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Chess opening
The opening is the initial stage of a chess game.
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ChessBase
ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess.
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Chessgames.com
Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.
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Chessmetrics
Chessmetrics is a system for rating chess players devised by Jeff Sonas.
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Congress Poland
Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw.
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Craig Pritchett
Craig W. Pritchett (born 15 January 1949 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish chess International Master who has written several chess books.
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Edward Winter (chess historian)
Edward Winter (born 1955) is an English chess journalist, archivist, historian, collector and author.
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Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. Akiba Rubinstein and Emanuel Lasker are 20th-century chess players, chess theoreticians and Jewish chess players.
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Four Knights Game
The Four Knights Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves: This is the most common sequence, but the knights may in any order to reach the same position.
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Frank Marshall (chess player)
Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. Akiba Rubinstein and Frank Marshall (chess player) are chess theoreticians.
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French Defence
The French Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: This is most commonly followed by 2.d4 d5.
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Gersz Salwe
Gersz Salwe (12 December 1862, Warsaw – 15 December 1920, Łódź), also written Salve, italic, was a Polish chess master. Akiba Rubinstein and Gersz Salwe are 19th-century Polish Jews, chess players from the Russian Empire, Jewish chess players and Polish chess players.
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Grandmaster (chess)
Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Akiba Rubinstein and Grandmaster (chess) are chess Grandmasters.
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Hamburg
Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.
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Hans Kmoch
Johann "Hans" Joseph Kmoch (July 25, 1894 – February 13, 1973) was an Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master (1950), International Arbiter (1951), and a chess journalist and author, for which he is best known. Akiba Rubinstein and Hans Kmoch are Jewish chess players.
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Harry Nelson Pillsbury
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (December 5, 1872 – June 17, 1906) was a leading American chess player. Akiba Rubinstein and Harry Nelson Pillsbury are 20th-century chess players.
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Jeremy Silman
Jeremy Silman (August 28, 1954 – September 21, 2023) was an American chess player and writer. Akiba Rubinstein and Jeremy Silman are Jewish chess players.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. Akiba Rubinstein and José Raúl Capablanca are 20th-century chess players and chess theoreticians.
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Karel Hromádka
Karel Hromádka (23 April 1887 in Großweikersdorf, Austria – 16 July 1956) was a Czech chess player, two-time Czech champion, 1913 and 1921 (jointly). Akiba Rubinstein and Karel Hromádka are chess theoreticians.
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King hunt
In chess, a king hunt is a tactical motif in which the opponent's king is exposed and subjected to a series of checks.
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Kyiv
Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.
List of chess grandmasters
The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. Akiba Rubinstein and List of chess grandmasters are chess Grandmasters.
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List of chess openings named after people
The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants.
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Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin; Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; –) was a Russian chess player. Akiba Rubinstein and Mikhail Chigorin are 20th-century chess players, chess players from the Russian Empire and chess theoreticians.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Nikolay Minev
Nikolay (or Nikolai) Nikolaev Minev (Николай Николаев Минев, 8 November 1931 – 10 March 2017) was a Bulgarian chess International Master (IM) and noted chess author.
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Nimzo-Indian Defence
The Nimzo-Indian Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: Other move orders, such as 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.d4 Bb4, are also feasible.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Paolo Maurensig
Paolo Maurensig (26 March 1943 – 29 May 2021) was an Italian novelist, best known for his book Canone inverso (1996), a complex tale of a violin and its owners.
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Pawn (chess)
The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess.
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Piešťany
Piešťany (Pistyan, Pöstyén, Pieszczany, Píšťany) is a town in Slovakia.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
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Polanica-Zdrój
Polanica-Zdrój (Altheide-Bad) is a spa town in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
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Queen (chess)
The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess.
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Queen's Gambit Accepted
The Queen's Gambit Accepted (QGA) is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Queen's Gambit Accepted is the third most popular option on Black's second move, after 2...e6 (the Queen's Gambit Declined) and 2...c6 (the Slav Defense).
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Queen's Gambit Declined
The Queen's Gambit Declined (or QGD) is a chess opening in which Black declines a pawn offered by White in the Queen's Gambit: This is known as the Orthodox Line of the Queen's Gambit Declined.
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Queen's Gambit Declined, Rubinstein Trap
The Rubinstein Trap is a chess opening trap in the Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense.
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Reaktion Books
Reaktion Books is an independent book publisher based in Islington, London, England.
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Reuben Fine
Reuben C. Fine (October 11, 1914 – March 26, 1993) was an American chess player, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology. Akiba Rubinstein and Reuben Fine are 20th-century chess players, chess Grandmasters, chess theoreticians and Jewish chess players.
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Rook (chess)
The rook (♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess.
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Rotlewi versus Rubinstein
Rotlewi versus Rubinstein is a game of chess played between Gersz Rotlewi and Akiba Rubinstein in Łódź, Poland on December 26, 1907.
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Rubinstein Memorial
The Rubinstein Memorial is an annual chess tournament held in Polanica-Zdrój, Poland in honour of the chess legend Akiba Rubinstein.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.
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San Sebastián chess tournament
There were two important chess tournaments held in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1911 and 1912.
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Sanatorium
A sanatorium (from Latin sānāre 'to heal, make healthy'), also sanitarium or sanitorium, is a historic name for a specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments, and convalescence.
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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by reoccurring episodes of psychosis that are correlated with a general misperception of reality.
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Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch (5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century. Akiba Rubinstein and Siegbert Tarrasch are chess theoreticians and Jewish chess players.
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Social anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by sentiments of fear and anxiety in social situations, causing considerable distress and impairing ability to function in at least some aspects of daily life.
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St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament
The St.
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Stawiski
Stawiski is a town in northeastern Poland, situated within Kolno County, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, approximately east of Kolno and west of the regional capital Białystok.
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Tarrasch Defense
The Tarrasch Defense is a chess opening characterized by the moves: The Tarrasch is a variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined.
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The Lüneburg Variation
The Lüneburg Variation is a novel by Paolo Maurensig, published in Italian in 1993 by Adelphi edizioni s.p.a. Milan and published in English translation in 1997.
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The Oxford Companion to Chess
The Oxford Companion to Chess is a reference book on the game of chess written by David Vincent Hooper and Kenneth Whyld.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
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Vilnius
Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.
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Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.
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White and Black in chess
In chess, the player who moves first is called White and the player who moves second is called Black.
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Wilhelm Steinitz
William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian and, later, American chess player. Akiba Rubinstein and Wilhelm Steinitz are chess theoreticians and Jewish chess players.
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William John Donaldson
William John Donaldson (born September 24, 1958), known as John Donaldson, is an American chess player, author, journalist and chess official.
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World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess.
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World Chess Championship 1954
A World Chess Championship was played between Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov in Moscow from March 16 to May 13, 1954.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Wrocław
Wrocław (Breslau; also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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Yuri Razuvaev
Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvaev Ю́рий Серге́евич Разува́ев (also Razuvayev; 10 October 1945 – 21 March 2012) was a Russian chess player and trainer. Akiba Rubinstein and Yuri Razuvaev are chess Grandmasters.
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Zenón Franco Ocampos
Zenón Franco Ocampos (born 12 May 1956, Paraguay) is a chess grandmaster (GM) from Paraguay. Akiba Rubinstein and Zenón Franco Ocampos are chess Grandmasters.
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Zugzwang
Zugzwang is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because of their obligation to make a move; a player is said to be "in zugzwang" when any legal move will worsen their position.
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3rd Chess Olympiad
The 3rd Chess Olympiad (Die 3.), organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 13 and July 27, 1930, in Hamburg, Germany.
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4th Chess Olympiad
The 4th Chess Olympiad (4.), organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and (unofficial) women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 11 and July 26, 1931, in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
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See also
People from Kolno County
- Akiba Rubinstein
- Edmund Borawski
- Jacob Brandenburg
- Maria Golimowska
Polish emigrants to Belgium
- Abraham Leon
- Adam Kopczyński
- Akiba Rubinstein
- Aleksander Szenajch
- Alicja Gescinska
- Arthur Dunkelblum
- Boruch Israel Dyner
- Chaïm Perelman
- David Shentow
- Eva Fastag
- Icek Glogowski
- Igor Grobelny
- Jacques Ledoux
- Joseph Silver
- Kaja Grobelna
- Léon Grossvogel
- Leopold Unger
- Mala Zimetbaum
- Maryan Bakalarczyk
- Stefan Askenase
- Zofia Poznańska
Sportspeople from Podlaskie Voivodeship
- Abraham Jacob Hollandersky
- Abram Blass
- Adam Kownacki
- Adam Wysocki
- Akiba Rubinstein
- Anna Jesień
- Artur Gąsiewski
- Artur Zaczek
- Bartosz Kowalczyk
- Celina Jesionowska
- Cezary Zamana
- Dagmara Nocuń
- Danas Pozniakas
- Dariusz Ludwig
- Dariusz Snarski
- Diana Sokołowska
- Edward Wojda
- Edyta Dzieniszewska
- Elżbieta Kuncewicz
- Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk
- Eulalia Rolińska
- Hans-Dieter Tippenhauer
- Henryk Trębicki
- Jadwiga Książek
- Joanna Fiodorow
- Kamila Lićwinko
- Krystyna Krupa
- Krystyna Zabawska
- Leszek Szarejko
- Lukasz Krupadziorow
- Maria Andrejczyk
- Maria Golimowska
- Marian Nietupski
- Monika Michałów
- Myer Prinstein
- Peter Sidorkiewicz
- Piotr Markiewicz
- Przemysław Czajkowski
- Rafał Czuper
- Romuald Siemionow
- Samuel Rosenthal
- Stanisław Paczka
- Sylwia Lisewska
- Szymon Sićko
- Tadeusz Walasek
- Teodor Zaczyk
- Waldemar Kikolski
- Waldemar Świrydowicz
- Łukasz Kuczyński